The New Media Reader
The New Media Reader serves as a comprehensive archive of the visionary ideas and technical breakthroughs that shaped our modern digital landscape. Editors Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort assemble a diverse collection of foundational texts and programs that predated the mainstream internet. From the early concepts of hypertext to the birth of the graphical user interface, this volume preserv…
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
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iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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