The soft edge a natural history and future of the information revolution / [electronic resource] :
Paul Levinson.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- xviii, 257 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index.
The first digital medium -- The printed authorship of the modern world -- The age of photography and the ageless image -- Telegraphy -- Telephone -- Electricity -- Radio -- Survival of the media fit -- Remedial media -- Word processing and its masters -- The online author as publisher and bookstore -- Hypertext and author/reader inversions -- The open Web and its enemies -- Twentieth-Century screens -- Paper futures -- Electronic watermarks -- Artificial intelligence in real life -- You can't touch that in cyberspace.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Information technology--History. Information technology--Forecasting.