The future /
Nick Montfort.
- xvi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- The MIT Press essential knowledge series .
- The MIT Press essential knowledge series .
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