Product Description: Im Zentrum dieses Bandes stehen mediale, technische und soziale Modernisierungsprozesse als Gegenstand und Bedingung von Literatur. Den Ausgangspunkt der Überlegungen bilden zumeist literarische Erzeugnisse im weitesten Sinne, von der kleinen Form bis zum großen Roman, vom computergenerierten Gedicht bis zur Literarisierung der Daten-Highways...read more

Product Description: Based on author David A. Grier's column "In Our Time," which runs monthly in Computer magazine, Too Soon To Tell presents a collection of essays skillfully written about the computer age, an era that began February 1946. Examining ideas that are both contemporary and timeless, these chronological essays examine the revolutionary nature of the computer, the relation between machines and human institutions, and the connections between fathers and sons to provide general readers with a picture of a specific technology that attempted to rebuild human institutions in its own image...read more

This timely collection includes original works by the Hugo Award-winning author of A Fire Upon the Deep about the concept of cyberspace, his novella Neuromancer, and related articles by technology notables such as Patricia Maes and Richard Stallman. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Science fiction dealing with robots, artificial intelligence, computer technology, and cybernetics is analyzed and evaluated in terms of its success in predicting technological developments