Montfort, Nick

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

9780262534819 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0262534819 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2017019916


Ciencias sociales
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CB 161 / M784f 2017

303.49