[OT] interesting book: NewMedia Reader

Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
Fri May 23 16:16:16 UTC 2003


Hi,

Just stumbled across a book that looks like it could be interesting:

The New Media Reader
 edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort
 book design by Michael Crumpton
 isbn: 0262232278 
http://www.newmediareader.com/

This contains reprints of lots of interesting stuff, e.g.

01. The Garden of Forking Paths Jorge Luis Borges, 1941
02. As We May Think Vannevar Bush, 1945
03. Computing Machinery and Intelligence Alan Turing, 1950
04. Men, Machines, and the World About Norbert Wiener, 1954
05. Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider, 1960
08. From Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework Douglas Engelbart, 1962
09. Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System Ivan Sutherland, 1963
11. A File Structure for The Complex, The Changing, and the Indeterminate Theodor H. Nelson, 1965
26. Personal Dynamic Media Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, 1977
....

Full list at http://www.newmediareader.com/book_contents.html

On the CD:

Spacewar! by Stephen Russell et al. 1962.
The first modern video game, running in a PDP-1 emulator.

The NLS demo by Douglas Engelbart. 1968.
Film footage of the first demonstration of hypertext, the mouse, and
videoconferencing, among other innovations.

-- 
Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeak.de



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