Author : Dinty W. Moore
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565128613
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)
Book Synopsis The Emperor's Virtual Clothes by : Dinty W. Moore
Download or read book The Emperor's Virtual Clothes written by Dinty W. Moore and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1995-01-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A skeptic by nature, a writer and teacher more at home with ballpoint pens than computer programs, Dinty W. Moore wanted to find out for himself if the much-touted Internet and the electronic culture it has spawned is really going to be the Next Big Thing, or whether it's the emperor's new clothes. This is not a how-to guide, a giddy net-head's online magical mystery tour, or a binaries-in-the-sky futurist treatise. Instead, this book tells it like it is about the Internet. Anyone who's asked, Who's there? What am I missing? and What is it all about? will find Moore's good-natured skepticism a welcome break from the explosion of wide-eyed techno-hype raging all around us. "Moore is far and away the best pure writer of the 'Wired School.' He's like the Stage Manager poking his head in around the set of 'Our Town.' Funny that it took the arrival of this commonsensical outsider to finally put a real human face on the digital world."--San Jose Mercury-News.