The Spirit of the Internet: Speculations on the Evolution of Global Consciousness1 review Lawrence Hagerty Matrix Masters, 2000 An exciting theory on where we're all headed. Is the spiritual wisdom of the ages materializing itself via the internet? Maybe so. The world is changing rapidly today, and the internet is a driving force. The author attempts to explain the changes humanity is going though by expanding on a 1938 theory by a Jesuit priest, Teilhard de Chardin, ...             High Tech/High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning10 reviews John Naisbitt Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2001 Highly Recommended! + "The railroad rides Mankind" + Enlightening, entertaining, and fascinating Megatrends author John Naisbitt's new book (co-written by daughter Nana Naisbitt and artist Douglas Philips) is a fat book of ideas that touches upon genetics, art, media violence, time sensibilities and even South Park. Unlike most futurists, the authors make judgment calls about future timelines ...             Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times The MIT Press, 2008 In an age of proliferating media and news sources, who has the power to define reality? When the dominant media declared the existence of WMDs in Iraq, did that make it a fact? Today, the "Social web" (sometimes known as Web 2.0, groupware, or the participatory Web)—epitomized by blogs, viral videos, and YouTube—creates new pathways for truths to emerge and makes possible new tactics for ...             Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution Of Global Intelligence (Helix Books)23 reviews George B. Dyson Basic Books, 1998 Maybe not scientific, but that's not the point anyway... + Computer biology? + EDVAC, Turing, Von Newmann, IAS. + Not entirely satisfying             Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means94 reviews Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Plume, 2003 Great read + Excellent book for beginners & engineers alike + Good way to start + Inspiring + Great overview for the non-scientist             Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics10 reviews Morley Winograd, Michael D. Hais Rutgers University Press, 2008 An important work + Explains why Obama won and the next 20 years + Millennial Makeover Just as newspapers have shifted their primary emphasis from print to the Internet, so too has politics. The bottom-up dynamic, emblemized by user-generated content, is taking over in many spheres, and those who cling to old authoritarian top-down structures will become irrelevant. There's more ...             Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and the Challenge of the New Media (The Radical ... Henry A. Giroux Paradigm Publishers, 2006 Prominent social critic Henry Giroux explores how new forms of media are challenging the very nature of politics in his most poignant and striking book to date. The emergence of the spectacle of terror as a new form of politics raises important questions about how fear and anxiety can be marketed, how terrorism can be used to recruit people in support of authoritarian causes, and how the ...             The Medium is the Massage22 reviews Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore Gingko Press, 2005 My view of the world ... + So visionary that the most important aspects are yet to come! + Very good book. Almost prophetic. ... was profoundly influenced by this book. I read it about 30 years ago. I'm pleasantly surprised to find it still in print.             Internet: Electronic Global Village (Megatech) David Jefferis Crabtree Publishing Company, 2001             Becoming Virtual4 reviews Pierre Levy Basic Books, 1998 Lévy gives us a new way of seeing culture. + Top Mind, See His Other Two Books + A Must-Read This is one of those rare books that will re-wire many minds. Lévy gives us a new way of seeing culture. He achieves this by linking specific cultural activities, and thereby humankind, to a fundamental process that is outside place and time - the process of virtualisation. That the book ...             War and Peace In the Global Village4 reviews Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore Gingko Press, 2001 Lousy title, great book. + DEEP SEA VERBOSITY + Is Your Brain OK or KO? + Sheer Brilliance!             The Third Wave Alvin Toffler Morrow, 1980             We the Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy3 reviews New Press, 1997 A very useful tool in sorting through the lies and hype. + Fabulously important book + Great book dealing with the mass media, and its ugly truths. This publication was useful in helping me and my family sort through the media hype surrounding who actually commits more crimes, whose on welfare, and who owns what super-giant media corporations. This helps us to weed out the negative sterotypical junk and get to the truth. I will share this ...             Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : Critical Edition2 reviews Marshall McLuhan Gingko Press, 2003 A tremendously original and thought- provoking work + You May Finally Discard Your 1967 Paperback Version This is one of the rare works which seem to explain new realities in a way which no one else before has grasped. It is the kind of work that gives a ' whole new picture of what is happening'. And if for this alone this work would be of great value. I am by no means a media expert and cannot ...             Creating Internet Intelligence: Wild Computing, Distributed Digital Consciousness, and the Emerging Global ... Ben Goertzel Springer, 2001 Creating Internet Intelligence is an interdisciplinary treatise exploring the hypothesis that global computer and communication networks will one day evolve into an autonomous intelligent system, and making specific recommendations as to what engineers and scientists can do today to encourage and shape this evolution. A general theory of intelligent systems is described, based on the ...             Media, Communication, Culture1 review James Lull Columbia University Press, 2000 Top-notch reading! Explores fascinating, challenging and modern concepts and examples that academic and nonacademic readers can understand and appreciate. An inspiring way of thinking about the many connections among media, communication and culture. What makes this book so special is the original and provocative ...             GLOBAL SENSE: Awakening Your Power to Save Our World1 review Judah Freed, Dr. Vandana Shiva Media Visions Press Ltd, 2008 Media Visions Press Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2CDVGW2NZB00N Judah Freed makes global sense. GLOBAL SENSE: Awakening Your Power to Save Our World             Release 2.110 reviews Esther Dyson Broadway, 1998 Great Book + Interesting, informing, easy to read Release 2.1 is a great book for how the internet is changing todays world. Many issues are brought up about the proper use and application of the internet and its rescources. A must read for all those interested in the evolution of the internet.             Future Shock Alvin Toffler Bantam Books, 1981             Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to State Power1 review Monroe E. Price The MIT Press, 2002 A distinctive voice Price has an amazing ear for language, whether he is writing the words himself or curating the words of his sources, he produces a unique voice. When writing about the role of the Internet in international information flows he comments that "the internet providers are legion" and a balace is ...