We can be forgiven for not noticing, but the world changed not long ago.
Sometime after the academics gave up complaining about the apparent commercialization of the internet, and while Wall Street was licking it’s wounds after the first internet boom went bust, the world changed.
Around the time we realized that over 200 million Americans have [...]
Posted January 23, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: arrival, cultural effects, culture, future libraries, information age, internet, internet usage, libraries, library, networked information, reality, science fiction, social change, society, stupendous, tiny marvels. 19 Comments.
Think now of the US interstate highway system. Like the internet that followed, the highway system was the subject of much hype and conjecture. Most notably, Norman Bel Geddes’ -designed General Motors Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York Word’s Fair. In it we saw magical highways connecting our cities, and whisking motorists from New [...]
Posted January 13, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: change, cultural values, culture, divided highways, highway, highways, interstate, interstate highways, mobility, social change, social effects, understanding change. Be the first one.
