The future / Nick Montfort.

Main entry:

Montfort, Nick, author.

Title & Author:

The future / Nick Montfort.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Description:

xvi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Series:

The MIT Press essential knowledge series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-164) and index.
Facing the future -- Oracles, prophecy, and divination -- Literary utopias -- Words-in-freedom, art for the future -- World's fairs and exhibiting the future -- The pre-invention of the web -- The computer becomes a book -- Current fictions : design fiction, science fiction -- Conclusion : Practices for future-making.

Summary:

"How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9780262534819 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0262534819 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
(ePub ebook)
9780262344746

Subject:

Future, The.
Futur.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Future Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Media Studies.

Added entries:

MIT Press essential knowledge series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 299703
Call No.: BIB 245858
Status: Available

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