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Electronic Dreams
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Author : Tom Lean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-12
Electronic Dreams written by Tom Lean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-12 with categories.
How did computers invade the homes and cultural life of 1980s Britain?Remember the ZX Spectrum? Ever have a go at programming with its stretchy rubber keys? How about the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, or Commodore 64? Did you marvel at the immense galaxies of Elite, master digital kung-fu in Way of the Exploding Fist or lose yourself in the surreal caverns of Manic Miner?For anyone who was a kid in the 1980s, these iconic computer brands are the stuff of legend. In Electronic Dreams, Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother and embraced the wonder-technology of the 1980s.This book charts the history of the rise and fall of the home computer, the family of futuristic and quirky machines that took computing from the realm of science and science fiction to being a user-friendly domestic technology. It is a tale of unexpected consequences, when the machines that parents bought to help their kids with homework ended up giving birth to the video games industry, and of unrealised ambitions, like the ahead-of-its-time Prestel network that first put the British home online but failed to change the world.Ultimately, it's the story of the people who made the boom happen, the inventors and entrepreneurs like Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar seeking new markets, bedroom programmers and computer hackers, and the millions of everyday folk who bought in to the electronic dream and let the computer into their lives.
Electronic Dreams
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Author : Tom Lean
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-02-11
Electronic Dreams written by Tom Lean and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-11 with Computers categories.
How did computers invade the homes and cultural life of 1980s Britain? Remember the ZX Spectrum? Ever have a go at programming with its stretchy rubber keys? How about the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, or Commodore 64? Did you marvel at the immense galaxies of Elite, master digital kung-fu in Way of the Exploding Fist or lose yourself in the surreal caverns of Manic Miner? For anyone who was a kid in the 1980s, these iconic computer brands are the stuff of legend. In Electronic Dreams, Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother and embraced the wonder-technology of the 1980s. This book charts the history of the rise and fall of the home computer, the family of futuristic and quirky machines that took computing from the realm of science and science fiction to being a user-friendly domestic technology. It is a tale of unexpected consequences, when the machines that parents bought to help their kids with homework ended up giving birth to the video games industry, and of unrealised ambitions, like the ahead-of-its-time Prestel network that first put the British home online but failed to change the world. Ultimately, it's the story of the people who made the boom happen, the inventors and entrepreneurs like Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar seeking new markets, bedroom programmers and computer hackers, and the millions of everyday folk who bought in to the electronic dream and let the computer into their lives.
Electronic Dreams
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Author :
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Electronic Dreams written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Wrinkles In Time
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Author : George Smoot
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2007-09-18
Wrinkles In Time written by George Smoot and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-18 with Science categories.
Astrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, "the holy grail of science," a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. In his search he struggled against time, the elements, and the forces of ignorance and bureaucratic insanity. Finally, after years of research, Smoot and his dedicated team of Berkeley researchers succeeded in proving the unprovable—uncovering, inarguably and for all time, the secrets of the creation of the universe. Wrinkles in Time describes this startling discovery that would usher in a new scientific age—and win Smoot the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Philip K Dick S Electric Dreams Volume 1
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Author : Philip K Dick
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-09-14
Philip K Dick S Electric Dreams Volume 1 written by Philip K Dick and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-14 with Fiction categories.
Based on the stories contained in this volume, the ten-part anthology series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams is written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander) and Michael Dinner (Justified, Masters of Sex), with Oscar nominated Bryan Cranston (Trumbo, Breaking Bad) both executive producing and appearing in the series. Each episode will be a sharp, thrilling standalone drama adapted and contemporised for global audiences by a creative team of British and American writers. The series will both illustrate Philip K. Dick's prophetic vision and celebrate the enduring appeal of the prized Sci-Fi novelist's work. Other guest stars include Janelle Morae, Anna paquin, Timothy Spall and Benedict Wong. The ten stories included are: THE HANGING STANGER, THE COMMUTER, THE FATHER-THING, EXHIBIT PIECE, IMPOSSIBLE PLANET, SALES PITCH, FOSTER YOU'RE DEAD, THE HOOD MAKER, HOLY QUARREL, IF THERE WERE NO BENNY CEMOLI, AUTOFAC and HUMAN IS
Electronic Dreams
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Author : Tom Lean
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-03-29
Electronic Dreams written by Tom Lean and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Computers categories.
The story of how computers invaded the homes and cultural life of 1980s Britain.
Futuromania
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Author : Simon Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-04-11
Futuromania written by Simon Reynolds and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-11 with Music categories.
Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future - the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's also about the way music can stir anticipation for a thrillingly transformed world just around the corner: a future that might be utopian or dystopian, but at least will be radically changed and exhilaratingly other. Starting with an extraordinary chapter on Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer, taking in illuminating profiles of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Boards of Canada, Burial, and Daft Punk, and arguing for Auto-Tune as the defining sound of 21st century pop, Futuromania shapes over two-dozen essays and interviews into a chronological narrative of machine-music from the 1970s to now. Reynolds explores the interface between pop music and science fiction's utopian dreams and nightmare visions, always emphasising the quirky human individuals abusing the technology as much as the era-defining advances in electronic hardware and digital software. A tapestry of the scenes and subcultures that have proliferated in that febrile, sexy and contested space where man meets machine, Futuromania is an enthused listening guide that will propel readers towards adventures in sound. There is a lifetime of electronic listening here.
Electric Dreams
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Author : Philip K. Dick
language : it
Publisher: Edizioni Mondadori
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Electric Dreams written by Philip K. Dick and has been published by Edizioni Mondadori this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Fiction categories.
NOTO SOPRATTUTTO PER I SUOI ROMANZI, Philip K. Dick ha scritto nella sua carriera anche più di cento racconti: questo volume ne raccoglie dieci tra i migliori, vere sfide per la mente, capaci di dettare le coordinate di un genere e misurarsi con i grandi temi che la letteratura, non solo fantascientifica, avrebbe affrontato negli anni a venire, dal problema delle macchine autoreplicanti alla possibilità di percepire davvero il mondo, fino a inquietanti allegorie sociopolitiche di una realtà mutata solo in apparenza dall'epoca della Guerra Fredda. Storie bizzarre, profetiche e potenti, che hanno ispirato la serie tv Philip Dick's Electric Dreams e svelato - se mai ce ne fosse bisogno - la sconfinata immaginazione e la profonda comprensione della natura umana di uno dei grandi autori americani del Novecento.
Electric Dreams
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Author : Ted Friedman
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2005-12
Electric Dreams written by Ted Friedman and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12 with Computers categories.
Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles to define the meanings of these powerful machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage’s “difference engine” in the nineteenth century to contemporary struggles over file swapping, open source software, and the future of online journalism. To reveal the hopes and fears inspired by computers, Electric Dreams examines a wide range of texts, including films, advertisements, novels, magazines, computer games, blogs, and even operating systems. Electric Dreams argues that the debates over computers are critically important because they are how Americans talk about the future. In a society that in so many ways has given up on imagining anything better than multinational capitalism, cyberculture offers room to dream of different kinds of tomorrow.
The Digital Dystopias Of Black Mirror And Electric Dreams
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Author : Steven Keslowitz
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-12-24
The Digital Dystopias Of Black Mirror And Electric Dreams written by Steven Keslowitz and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-24 with Performing Arts categories.
This critical examination of two dystopian television series--Black Mirror and Electric Dreams--focuses on pop culture depictions of technology and its impact on human existence. Representations of a wide range of modern and futuristic technologies are explored, from early portrayals of artificial intelligence (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1921) to digital consciousness transference as envisioned in Black Mirror's "San Junipero." These representations reflect societal anxieties about unfettered technological development and how a world infused with invasive artificial intelligence might redefine life and death, power and control. The impact of social media platforms is considered in the contexts of modern-day communication and political manipulation.