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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:57:20 -0400 WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A NON EDITED MACHINE TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL IN SPANISH 5 books on the society of information
message extracts Chronicles of Cyberie " of October 26, 99 ref: BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS. And who pretends that the new technologies threaten the book? Certainly not those and those that are to the good reading look-out and that are delighted of the generous crop stored at our booksellers, cyber or other, this fall.In short tower of recent publication horizon. In 1998, Manual Castells published at Fayard the first volume of his/her/its trilogy �The era of information�, titled �society networks� (first available chapter on the site of Liberation). This year, Castells followed with �The Power of the identity� and �End of millennium�. Bernard Benhamou delivers us on the excellent site literary Paru.Com a portrait louangeur of the trilogy of Castells and tells us that it is there about the work of reference on the society of information, fruit of fourteen years of research and reflection on behalf of the author, �the missing link in the abundant intellectual production on reports between technologies and societies.� In �society networks�, written Castells that �For the first time in history the human brain becomes a direct production strength� and that the individualization of production means constitutes the most powerful lever on our savings.New reports at the time and the space, new report to the knowledge, also, and necessity to fight the �illectronisme�. The second shutter of the trilogy, �The Power of the identity�, bend on reports identitaireses between individuals and the social and political structures and evoke, as others before, the decline of the States - Nation sovereignty.Third flap of the triptyque, �End of millennium�, arrive in synthesis and land to the very present theme passage, as consequences of technologies of information on countries of the South and savings mafieuseses in network.For Bernard Benhamou, �The conclusion is that (contrary to what predicts of no) it doesn't exist a determinism facing changes that introduce networks in our societies [...] an indispensable reading to all.� Liberation, Chapter One,: Society networks The inventor of the World Wide Web, the British Tim Berners-Lee, has just published a book that will certainly be part of the library of good of actors of the network, �Weaving the Web : The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor� (literally, �to Weave Canvas: the initial concept and the ultimate destiny of the Web, by his/her/its author�, first chapter in available English at the HarperCollins publisher). Berners-Lee was often critical towards the technical fragmentation of the Web, the non respect of norms, and the specific platform imposition the software owners'.In addition to reiterate these subjects and to clothe them Berners-Lee approaches in an incisive manner questions of content censorship, of respect of the private life, of the growing power in the universe network of software manufacturers, and of the necessity to find a balance between the commercial strengths and the social values on the Web.The author also postpones pendulums at time on the origin of the concept of the Web, often distorted by journalists.Not of genius lightning, not of moment eureka, but rather a book of the Victorian era, found in the house of his/her/its parents whereas he/it was again child, a book that proposed answers to the daily questions but that inspired him a global vision of the development decentralized, organic of ideas, of the technology, of the society. In complement of reading, of interviews with the author in Wired (and in MP3 versions and QuickTime), and also at SiliconValley.Com. Tim Berners-Lee:�Weaving Web tea: Tea
Original Design Ultimate and Destiny of tea World Wide Web by Inventor
its� Change of register.William Gibson, father of the movement Cyberpunk, author of the book cult �Neuromancien� then of �Idoru� and �Virtual Light� and script writer of the movie �Johnny Mnemonic� has just published another book promised to a beautiful success in surroundings of the cyber - science - fiction, �All Tomorrow's Parties�. He brings back in stage Hake Laney, the seer of �Idoru�, that surrenders account that the apocalypse planned for the year 2000, and that doesn't materialize, will be somewhat baffled.He solves to tempt to warn it then. Hairy characters to measurements fractaleses, the style is lighter than in his previous works.Not of Web site for the book, not a word at the Putnam publisher, but an interview at Humans Partners (1996) and also a carried interesting at CanalPlus. Humans Partners: William Gibson, vagabond of limbs, http://www.mediaport.net/HumainsAssocies/JournalVirtuel2/HA.JV2.Gibson.html Specialists of the cybermetrie know very Gerry McGovern, director of the Irish society of research and Nua development that maintain a very up to date eve site on the various polls in the space cyber.McGovern also publishes a weekly bulletin, �New Thinking�, a set of philosophical tickets on the technological society.In a book that he/it has just published, �Tea Caring Economy: Business Principles for tea New Digital Age� (literally �The economy of the empathy: commercial principles for the numeric era�), McGovern tempts to clear distinctions between the economy of the industrial era and the one of the numeric era.According to him, in all the debates on Internet and technologies of information, one put the accent greatly too much on the reduction of costs and not enough on the creation and the addition of value, and on the service to the clientele.If the continuous in line trade to be enlivened by a mentality of junk and braderie, it won't evolve.McGovern joins many observers for whom the in line merchants make too little to offer the clientele a pleasant purchase experience thus.The author goes there of about ten basis principles whose cybermarchandses should take account Nua |
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