Title:
The future / Nick Montfort.
Author:
Montfort, Nick, author.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Call Number:
BF327 .M66 2017
Abstract:
"How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers"--Page 4 of cover.
ISBN:
9780262534819
Series:
The MIT Press essential knowledge series
MIT Press essential knowledge series.
Physical Description:
xvi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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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.
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