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Synopsis
This startling exploration of the mass media age uniquely combines complex nonfiction and prescient fiction from the best and brightest visionaries of the future. With an Introduction by Paul Levinson, essay contributors include Marshall McLuhan, who posited that the medium is the message; Cory Doctorow and his re-visioning of intellectual property in the digital age; and Nicolas Carr, whose cautionary warnings include that Google is making us stupid. The thought-provoking short stories are authored by science fiction luminaries including James Tiptree Jr., whose pseudonymous cyperpunk preceded all of her peers; Joe Haldeman and his wars where humans fight through cloning and time travel; and Norman Spinrad, who has pitted the media against an immortality conspiracy. Offering a blend of predictions for the course of communications, Future Media entertains while it informs and challenges readers to consider the implications for a society dealing with networks that are alternately personal, public, pervasive, and powerful.
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About the Author
Rick Wilber is a college journalism professor who heads the magazine major at the University of South Florida. He is the author of several college textbooks, including Magazine Feature Writing (St. Martin’s Press), The Writer’s Handbook for Editing and Revision (McGraw-Hill), and Modern Media Writing (Cengage). He has published more than fifty science-fiction short stories appearing in such anthologies and magazines as Analog, Asimov’s, and Fantasy & Science Fiction.
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""Future Media" is a thought-provoking, worthwhile read. . . . There was a beautiful glimmer in the near distance that grew brighter, more important and insistent, with every page I turned." --"Seattle Post-Intelligencer "
Often deep, occasionally dense, and always thought-provoking, these works will appeal to both academics and lay readers.”
Publishers Weekly
Recommended for anyone who has a smartphone, watches TV, or uses the Internet.”
Pop Matters
Future Media is a thought-provoking, worthwhile read that may cause similar feelings to reading Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.... [T]here was a beautiful glimmer in the near distance that grew brighter, more important, and insistent with every page I turned.”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (July 30, 2011)
A great book upon which to base a university lecture.”
Interzone
Rick Wilber has produced one of the most impressive anthologies of recent times. Indeed along with the wonderful Kafkaesque, it has been quite a year for superb anthologies from Tachyon Publications.”
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- PublisherTachyon Publications
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1616960205
- ISBN 13 9781616960209
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages431
- EditorRick Wilber
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