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The Best of Technology Writing 2008 (Best of Technology Writing) | 
 enlarge | Author: Clive Thompson
Publisher: Digital Culture Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 25504
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0472033271
Dewey Decimal Number: 500
EAN: 9780472033270
ASIN: 0472033271
Publication Date: August 22, 2008
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DIVP"No one covers technology with more insight or panache than Clive Thompson. I can't imagine anyone better qualified to curate this fascinating series."BR---Chris Anderson, editor in chief of IWired/I magazine and author of IThe Long Tail/I/PP"Editor Clive Thompson suggests we are in a #8216;golden age of technology journalism.' Reading this collection, one suspects he is right---it sparkles with beautifully written narratives not only about what technology can do for us but what it does to us as people, to our ways of thinking about ourselves, our relationships, and how we envisage our world."BR---Sherry Turkle, Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/PPThe Best of Technology Writing 2008 proves that technology writing is a bona fide literary genre with some of the most stylish, compelling, and just plain readable work in journalism today. /PPThe third volume in this annual series, The Best of Technology Writing 2008 covers a fascinating mix of topics---from a molecular gastronomist's recipe for the perfect gin and tonic; to "the Mechanism," an ancient Greek artifact that might be the world's first laptop computer; to social media, privacy, and what is possibly the biggest generation gap since rock 'n' roll./PPFeaturing contributions from/PULLITed Allen LIMichael Behar LICaleb Crain LIJulian Dibbell LICory Doctorow LIDavid Glenn LIThomas Goetz LICharles Graeber LIAlex Hutchinson LIWalter Kirn LIRobin Mejia LIEmily Nussbaum LIBen Paynter LIJeffrey Rosen LIJohn Seabrook LICass R. Sunstein/LI/ULPBdigitalculturebooks/B is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and its impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org. /P/DIV
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