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This startling exploration of the mass media age uniquely combines complex nonfiction and prescient fiction from the best and brightest visionaries of the future. Essay contributors include Marshall McLuhan, who posited that the medium is the message; Cory Doctorow and his re-visioning of intellectual property in the digital age; and Nicolas Carr, whose cautionary warnings include that Google is making us stupid. The thought-provoking short stories are authored by science fiction luminaries including James Tiptree Jr., whose pseudonymous cyperpunk preceded all of her peers; Joe Haldeman and his wars where humans fight through cloning and time travel; and Norman Spinrad, who has pitted the media against an immortality conspiracy. Offering a blend of predictions for the course of communications, "Future Media" entertains while it informs and challenges readers to consider the implications for a society dealing with networks that are alternately personal, public, pervasive, and powerful.
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Rick Wilber is a college journalism professor who heads the magazine major at the University of South Florida. He is the author of several college textbooks, including
Magazine Feature Writing (St. Martin's Press),
The Writer's Handbook for Editing and Revision (McGraw-Hill), and
Modern Media Writing (Cengage). He has published more than fifty science-fiction short stories appearing in such anthologies and magazines as
Analog,
Asimov's, and
Fantasy & Science Fiction.
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This startling exploration of the mass-media age uniquely combines complex nonfiction and prescient fiction from the best and brightest visionaries of the future.
Nonfiction contributors include Marshall McLuhan, who posited that the medium is the message; Cory Doctorow and his revisioning of intellectual property in the digital age; and Nicolas Carr, whose cautionary warning is that Google is (and will continue to be) making us stupid.
Fiction comes from science-fiction standouts, including James Tiptree, Jr., whose pseudonymous cyberpunk preceded all her peers; Joe Haldeman, whose wars require humans to battle via cloning and time travel; and Norman Spinrad, who has pitted the media against an immortality conspiracy.
In offering startling predictions of what the mass media will be like in years to come, Future Media not only entertains while it informs but also challenges its readers, from teachers to students to science-fiction fans, to consider the implications for society of a mass media that is at once personal, public, pervasive, and powerful.
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"Future Media" is a thought-provoking, worthwhile read. . . . There was a beautiful glimmer in the near distance that grew brighter, more important and insistent, with every page I turned." --"Seattle Post-Intelligencer "
“Often deep, occasionally dense, and always thought-provoking, these works will appeal to both academics and lay readers.”
Publishers Weekly
“Recommended for anyone who has a smartphone, watches TV, or uses the Internet.”
Pop Matters
“Future Media is a thought-provoking, worthwhile read that may cause similar feelings to reading Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.... [T]here was a beautiful glimmer in the near distance that grew brighter, more important, and insistent with every page I turned.”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (July 30, 2011)
“A great book upon which to base a university lecture.”
Interzone
“Rick Wilber has produced one of the most impressive anthologies of recent times. Indeed along with the wonderful Kafkaesque, it has been quite a year for superb anthologies from Tachyon Publications.”
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