Deeper - Hardcover

Seabrook

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684801752 ISBN 13: 9780684801759

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1997

Synopsis

In Deeper, John Seabrook, a staff writer for the New Yorker, takes us along his personal journey down the information highway. In the beginning of this pioneering adventure into cyberspace, our hero (seabrook) is a clueless newbie. He ends up an old hand, complete with arrow wounds to show off. When Seabrook is not narrating his own on-line adventures, he is writing an eyewitness history of a tumultuous period in the early history of a new medium, when the Net moved decisively from a geeky hobby to a part of mainstream popular culture. We meet major figures in the computer industry, catch the utopian feeling, get flamed, get laid, soar over the Net like Satan soaring over the Earth in Paradise Lost, join a virtual community and find out what daily life is like, lose the utopian feeling, adapt to the World Wide Web, and build a Web site.

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Review:

Brian Eno What a relief and an enlightenment to read a book about the Internet which is neither naively utopian nor ignorantly Luddite.

James Coates Chicago Tribune Seabrook describes with vintage New Yorker wit and eloquence the landscape of the World Wide Web.

Kent Roberts The Dallas Morning News A very wise exploration of the Internet. Seabrook's is one of the first books to take the discussion beyond advocacy to a careful study of the realities, possibilities and ideologies of the Internet. Written brilliantly.... Great books about the idea of progress are great books about people. Seabrook has written one in Deeper.

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"What a relief and an enlightment to read a book about the Internet which is neither naively utopian nor ignorantly Luddite. John Seabrook journeyed deep into the Internet, got lost there for a while, but found an accommodation with it. His journey is a meditation on technology, on what it does to to us as well as for us, and the ballanced picture at which he arrives is an invaluable insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the new structure of social communication which the Internet represents." --Brian Eno

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684801752
• ISBN 13: 9780684801759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288