Cyberspace: First Steps - Softcover

Benedikt, Michael L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262521776 ISBN 13: 9780262521772

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1992

Synopsis

Cyberspace has been defined as "an infinite artificial world where humans navigate in information-based space" and as "the ultimate computer-human interface." However one defines it, this "virtual reality" is clearly both the strangest and most radically innovative of today's computer developments. These original contributions take up the philosophical basis for cyberspace in ancient thought, the relevance of the body in virtual realities, basic communications principles for cyberspace, the coming dematerialization of architecture, the logic of graphic representation into the third dimension, the design of a noncentralized system for multiparticipant cyberspaces, the ramifications of cyberspace for future workplaces, and a great deal more.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Benedikt is Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and is CEO of Mental Technology, Inc.

Review:

" Essays and musings on one of the most exciting, exotic, and least understood frontiers of computing... The descriptions offered in the book are compelling." -- Peter H. Lewis, The New York Times & quot; Essays and musings on one of the most exciting, exotic, and least understood frontiers of computing... The descriptions offered in the book are compelling.& quot; -- Peter H. Lewis, The New York Times "Essays and musings on one of the most exciting, exotic, and least understood frontiers of computing... The descriptions offered in the book are compelling."--Peter H. Lewis, The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0262521776
• ISBN 13: 9780262521772
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436