Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 The Internet at the Forefront Chapter 3 2 From Bonfires and Bongos to the Web Chapter 4 3 Web Gems Chapter 5 4 The "Highway" Metaphor Chapter 6 5 Knocking the Net Chapter 7 6 Saddam, O.J., and the Unabomber Chapter 8 7 Nothing is Certain but Death and Taxes Chapter 9 8 Aristotle, Jefferson, Marx, and McLuhan Chapter 10 9 Supporters Crow about "500 Channels" and Everyone Warns about "Infoglut" Chapter 11 10 Voices of the Net Chapter 12 11 The Threat to Freedom; to the Earth Chapter 13 12 The Future of Networks Chapter 14 13 Nobody Knows You're a Dog Chapter 15 14 Hmmm...Will it Happen? Chapter 16 Appendix A: Wired Inspired Chapter 17 Appendix B: Recording the Data Chapter 18 Suggested Readings Chapter 19 Bibliography
Janna Quitney Anderson is the director of Internet projects and assistant professor of communications in the School of Communications at Elon University, North Carolina.
Janna Anderson offers a great perspective on the history and future
of the Internet based on Elon University/Pew Internet & American
Life Project's extensive prediction collection. Good books come
from thorough research. Starting with the earliest communications
systems, such as the telegraph, is a useful bonus. Being a part of
and having the last word in this fine past-and-future Internet
chronicle is a real honor....
*Gordon Bell, vice president of research and development, DEC;
leader of the National Science Foundation's Information
Superhighway Initiative*
Janna Anderson illuminates with great clarity the history, dreams,
and challenges of the Internet, which allow the reader to see
glimpses of the future. A wonderful and important contribution.
*Tiffany Shlain, founder and chair, the Webby Awards*
There are many books on the Internet and cyberculture—part hype,
part gloss, sometimes solid technology criticism. Anderson's book
is valuable because it helps sort out differing viewpoints and puts
them in a historical context, recreating many of the ups and downs
of the 1990s, before things got really crazy. She has an amazing
database of predictions, collected over time, and selects from it
well. This book is never dense reading, but it is packed with
interesting facts and milestones to jar my memory, to help me
recreate what that time was like, because the subtle changes are
what have worked us over so thoroughly. My favorite part in these
excursions into the words of technology prophets and critics is
picking out the threads that had an influence—that helped shape the
larger visions of what this massive commons has become.
*Christine Boese, cyberculture columnist, CNN.com; writer, CNN
Headline News*
Anderson provides a variety of perspectives on contested issues
such as privacy on the Internet, personal identity online, and
'information overload.' Anderson's knowledge is encyclopedic, and
her accessible, jargon-free style will engage professors and
researchers without alienating undergraduates. Highly
recommended.
*CHOICE*
[Imagining the Internet] looks at the future through an analysis of
the past. It is somewhat difficult after becoming immersed in these
insights to remember that Internet communication began with the
utmost diffidence. Indeed the first events involved a computer
crash and unmemorable twaddle. . . . We hope that this material
will be useful to scholars who wish to assess the distance we have
come; journalists who are trying to figure out where we are now;
government, industry, and nonprofit officials who want to build the
Internet of the future; and people of all walks of life who must
learn to recognize the coming complexities of their networked
world.
*Lee Rainie, director, the Pew Internet & American Life Project,
from the Foreword*
Janna Anderson offers a great perspective on the history and future
of the Internet based on Elon University/Pew Internet & American
Life Project's extensive prediction collection. Good books come
from thorough research. Starting with the earliest communications
systems, such as the telegraph, is a useful bonus. Being a part of
and having the last word in this fine past-and-future Internet
chronicle is a real honor.
*Gordon Bell, vice president of research and development, DEC;
leader of the National Science Foundation's Information
Superhighway Initiative*
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