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The future / Nick Montfort.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: The MIT Press essential knowledge series | The MIT Press essential knowledge seriesPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]Description: xvi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262534819 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262534819 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.49 23
LOC classification:
  • CB 161 M784f 2017
Contents:
Facing the future -- Oracles, prophecy, and divination -- Literary utopias -- Words-in-freedom, art for the future -- World's fairs and exhibiting the future -- The pre-invention of the web -- The computer becomes a book -- Current fictions : design fiction, science fiction -- Conclusion : practices for future-making.
Awards:
  • Winner of Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles for 2018 2018
Summary: "How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers"--Page 4 of cover.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) CB 161 M784f 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000140200


Includes bibliographical references and index.

Facing the future --
Oracles, prophecy, and divination --
Literary utopias --
Words-in-freedom, art for the future --
World's fairs and exhibiting the future --
The pre-invention of the web --
The computer becomes a book --
Current fictions : design fiction, science fiction --
Conclusion : practices for future-making.

"How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers"--Page 4 of cover.

Winner of Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles for 2018 2018

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