Technorealism
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Tools and Interfaces
Democracy in the Information Age
Free Speech
The New Economy
New Media
Privacy and Security
Information Proliferation
Intellectual Property
Community
Ethics
Spirituality
Education
Genetics
History
"Technorealists" in the Media


Tools and Interfaces

Paulina Borsook, "At What Cost Transhumanity,", Hotwired, August 1996

James Brook and Iain A. Boal (Editor), Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, City Lights Books, June, 1995

Esther Dyson, Steven Johnson, Michael Joyce, Wen Stephenson, Remembering the Memex: A FEED Document on Vannevar Bush's As We May Think

Steven Johnson, Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms The Way We Create And Communicate, HarperEdge, 1997

David Shenk, "The Problem with Hypertext," National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," May 14, 1997

Mark Slouka, War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality, Basic Books, Aug. 1, 1996

Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, University of Chicago,1986

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Democracy in the information age

Patricia Aufderheide, "Telecommunications and the public interest," in Erik Barnouw, et al., Conglomerates and The Media, New Press, 1997

Paulina Borsook, "Cyberselfish,",Mother Jones, July/August 1996

Ronald Brownstein, "Rage Against the Political Machine," Fast Company, August-September 1996

Noam Chomsky, "Necessary Illusions." South End Press, 1989

Jean Bethke Elshtain, "Democracy and the QUBE Tube," The Nation, August 7-14, 1982

Lawrence K. Grossman, "The Electronic Republic : Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age", Penguin, 1996

Suzannah Lessard. "Banish the Pollsters," The Washington Monthly, January/February 1996

Richard E. Sclove, " Democracy and Technology, Guilford Press, 1995

Steve Silberman, "Black Flight to the Net," HotWired, Sept. 18, 1997

Steve Silberman, " We're Teen, We're Queer, and We Have Email," Wired, November, 1994

Paul Starr, "Cyberpower and Freedom," The American Prospect, July-August 1997
http://epn.org/prospect/33/33starf.html

Robert Wright, "Hyperdemocracy," Time, January 23, 1995

Andrew L. Shapiro, "Is the Net Democratic? Yes -- and No," World Media Forum, Fall 1997

Eric Voegelin, "The New Science of Politics", University of Chicago, 1952

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Free Speech

Lawrence Lessig, "Tyranny in the Infrastructure," Wired, July 1997

Joshua Micah Marshall, The Trouble with PICS, FEED, September 1997

Andrew L. Shapiro, "Keeping Online Speech Free: Street Corners In Cyberspace," The Nation, July 3, 1995

Andrew L. Shapiro, "The Danger of Private Cybercops," The New York Times, December 4, 1997

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The New Economy

Brooke Shelby Biggs, "Way-New Solipsism," San Francisco Bay Guardian, Jan. 21, 1998

Paulina Borsook, "Bionomics 101,"> Feed, October 18, 1996

Steve Gibson, Doug Henwood, Mark Stahlman, William Taylor Long Boom or Slow Bust? The FEED Dialog on the New Economy, FEED, December 1997

David Hudson, The Digital Dark Ages," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Nov. 1996

Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker, Digital Delirium (Culturetexts), St. Martin's Press, June, 1997 (link available at http://www.nwpbooks.com)

Walter Russell Mead, "The New Global Economy Takes Your Order,"Mother Jones, March 1998

Robert Reich, "Working Class Dogged," Mother Jones, March 1998

Douglas Rushkoff "Upgrades and the GNP." Syndicated column, January 1998

Andrew L. Shapiro, "Freedom From Choice," Wired, December 1997

David Shenk, "The mirage of 'free stuff'," Hotwired, July 18, 1997

William C. Wresch, Disconnected : Haves and Have-Nots in the Information Age, Rutgers University Press, Nov. 1, 1996

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New Media

Brooke Shelby Biggs, "Advertorial License" HotWired, Nov. 19, 1996

Ithiel de Sola Pool, Technologies without Boundaries, Harvard, 1990

Forum, "What Are We Doing Online?" Harper's Magazine, August 1995

Jon Katz, "Guilty,", Wired, 3.09.

Todd Lappin, "Deja Vu All Over Again," Wired, 3.05.

Steven E. Miller, Civilizing Cyberspace, Addison Wesley, 1996

Mark Slouka, War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality, 1995

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Privacy and Security

Anne Wells Branscomb, Who Owns Information?, Basic Books, 1994

Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. The Panoptic Sort: The Political Economy of Personal Information, Westview, 1993

Simson Garfinkel, "Electronic Border Control," HotWired, July 14, 1997

Andrew L. Shapiro , "Privacy for Sale: Peddling Data on the Internet," The Nation, June 23, 1997

John Whalen, "You're Not Paranoid: They Really Are Watching You. Surveillance in the workplace is getting digitized - and getting worse." Wired. 3.03.

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Information Proliferation

Eli M. Noam, "Visions of the media age: taming the information monster," in Multimedia: A Revolutionary Challenge. Third Annual Colloquium, June 16/17, 1995. Frankfurt am Main, 1995. Schaffer-Poeschel Verlag Stuttgart

Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information, University of California, 1986

Douglas Rushkoff "Media Virus." Ballantine, 1994

David Shenk, Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut, New York: HarperEdge, 1997

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Intellectual Property

Paulina Borsook, "Steal This Article," Upside, March 1996

Paulina Borsook , "Is it Art or Is It Appropriation?" Sundance Film Festival catalogue, January 1997

James Boyle, Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society, Harvard,1996

Steve Silberman, "The War Against Fandom," HotWired, June 5, 1997

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Community

Stephen Doheny-Farina, The Wired Neighborhood, Yale, 1996

Stacy Horn, Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town, Warner Books, 1998

Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford, 1985

Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, Addison-Wesley, 1993

Howard Rheingold, "What Technophiles Need to Know: A Work In Progress"

Douglas Rushkoff "They Called Me Cyberboy," Time Digital, 1997

Joseph Turow, Breaking Up America, University of Chicago, 1997

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Ethics

Freeman Dyson, "Can Science Be Ethical?" The New York Review of Books, April 10, 1997

Douglas Rushkoff, Opportunity Costs: What Computers Cost the Environment." Syndicated column, New York Times, April 1997

Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, Houghton Mifflin, 1950

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Spirituality

Paulina Borsook , "The Goddess in Every Woman's Machine," Wired, October 1995

David F. Noble, "The Religion of Technology", Knopf, 1997

Douglas Rushkoff "Cyberia." HarperCollins, 1994

Steve Silberman, "Intimate Practice," Wired News, Dec. 1997

Eric Voegelin, "Science, Politics and Gnosticism", Regnery, 1968

Norbert Wiener, "God & Golem, Inc.", MIT Press, 1964

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Education

C.S. Lewis, "The Abolition of Man", Macmillan, 1944

Todd Oppenheimer, "The Computer Delusion," The Atlantic, July 1997

Douglas Rushkoff "Computers in the Classroom." Syndicated column, June 1997

Douglas Rushkoff "Children of Chaos." HarpercollinsUK, 1994

Randy Sparkman, "At School," Moveable Type, 1998

Mark Stahlman, "Prisoners to Technology?" Information Week, December 1996

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Genetics

David Shenk, "Biocapitalism: What price the genetics revolution?" (Harper's, 12/97)

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History

Mark Stahlman, "The English Ideology and WIRED Magazine," ReWired, November, 1996

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"Technorealists" in the Media

Katie Hafner, "Battle Cry of the Technorealists," The New York Times, March 12, 1998, p. E3
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/03/circuits/voices/12real.html

Elizabeth Weise, "Tract Waves Yellow Flag on Technology," USA Today, March 12, 1990, p. 3D
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctc282.htm

Robert O'Harrow Jr., Internet: Global Good or Evil Empire? Technorealists Take Middle Road: It's Revolutionary, Not Utopian, Washington Post, April 6, 1998, p. F23
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-04/06/028l-040698-idx.html

Jeffrey R. Young, "'Technorealists' Hope to Enrich Debate Over Policy Issues in Cyberspace," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23, 1998
http://chronicle.com/data/internet.dir/itdata/1998/03/t98032301.htm

Ian Christe, "Digital Dream Team Calls for Technorealism," Wired News, March 12, 1998
http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/10872.html

Steve Silberman, "Technorealism: Beyond the Hype," Wired News, March 24, 1998
http://www.wired.com/news/news/wiredview/story/11165.html

Maria Seminerio, 'Technorealists' aim for center, MSNBC, March 20
http://www.msnbc.com/news/152290.asp#BODY

Douglas Rushkoff, The Guardian piece, "How I learnt to love the government" is linked at
http://online.guardian.co.uk/theweb/890838495-second.html

David Futrelle, "The Radically Ordinary Creed of Technorealism," Newsday March 29, 1998

Gary Chapman, "Treatise of the Plugged In Is Disconnected From Ordinary People," L.A.Times, March 23, 1998

Austin Bunn, "Machine Age," Village Voice, March 24, 1998

Douglas Rushkoff, "How I Learnt to Love the Government," The Guardian, Mach 26, 1998

"Technorealism," The Nation, April 6, 1998

Edward Rothstein, "A Benign Declaration Treated as Revolutionary," New York Times, March 23, 1998
http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+site+32210+0+wAAA+technorealism

Steven Levy, "Focus on Technology: Glorifying The Obvious," March 30, 1998
http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/levy.htm

Jon Katz, "Way-New Technopomposity," Hotwired, March 31, 1998
http://www.hotwired.com/synapse/katz/98/13/katz1a_text.html

Judith Lewis, "Smash the Technorealist State," L.A. Weekly, March 20, 1998
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/archives/97/17close-3.18.98.shtml

Michael Kinsley, "Golidlocks in Cyberspace," Slate, March 21, 1998
http://www.slate.com/Readme/98-03-21/Readme.asp

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