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Signal : communication tools for the information age, a Whole Earth catalog
Recommends books and products dealing with computers, language, networking, video, communication, music, art, math, business and creativity
226 pages, Paperback
First published November 21, 1988
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Kevin Kelly
133 books1,605 followersKevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control."
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April 23, 2015
This book led to my interest in Cyberpunk, and ultimately a career in IT.
June 14, 2015
Back to the Future! This spectacularly broad overview of the Information Age shows truly incredible foresight and prescience at the 1988 dawn of the world we now inhabit. There are many empowering insights to be found here, by getting to see our present Tech/Internet world in the context of its moment of emergence.
Drawing on the wide-ranging interests of editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly (pioneers of Whole Earth Catalog, Wired Magazine, the WELL network, and many others), this unique compendium is full of timeless knowledge on the broad world of "Communication"-- which Brand defines as "a single, Meta-Domain." All forms of human communication and knowledge are included here, then greatly magnified through the technological lens of digital multimedia and global networks-- which Brand and Kelly had a strikingly clear view of in the 80's, over a decade before the rest of the world.
SIGNAL provides a much needed "Systems Thinking" viewpoint on the information world we now live in and take for granted, but still often fail to understand, especially in its full context. And having that context can provide truly rare and powerful insights on the journey still ahead.
Drawing on the wide-ranging interests of editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly (pioneers of Whole Earth Catalog, Wired Magazine, the WELL network, and many others), this unique compendium is full of timeless knowledge on the broad world of "Communication"-- which Brand defines as "a single, Meta-Domain." All forms of human communication and knowledge are included here, then greatly magnified through the technological lens of digital multimedia and global networks-- which Brand and Kelly had a strikingly clear view of in the 80's, over a decade before the rest of the world.
SIGNAL provides a much needed "Systems Thinking" viewpoint on the information world we now live in and take for granted, but still often fail to understand, especially in its full context. And having that context can provide truly rare and powerful insights on the journey still ahead.
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