War Of The Worlds: Cyberspace And The High-tech Assault On Reality
 

War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality

by Mark Slouka

Mark Slouka is Neil Postman's kindred spirit. These essays offer a critique of how cyberspace effects and changes the rest of reality. With an acerbic tongue, Slouka examines what he considers to be the dark side of the net. Slouka can get quite melodramatic, as when he compares Wired editor Kevin Kelly to Nazi propaganda filmmaker Leni Rienfenstahl. War of the Worlds is well worth reading,... (read more)

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