I have a new book coming out in a couple of weeks, an anthology that I've edited: "Future Media" (Tachyon Publishing). The book collects classic works of fiction and non-fiction from Ray Bradbury to Marshall McLuhan, with fiction excerpts from Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," Huxley's "Brave New World," Norman Spinrad's "Bug Jack Barron," and Cory Doctorow's "Makers" novels, as well as classic media-predictive short fiction reprints from James Tiptree Jr., Gregory Benford, Kit Reed, James Patrick Kelly, Joe Haldeman, Kate Wilhelm, Pat Cadigan, Robert Sheckley, James Patrick Kelly, and Guillermo Gomez-Pena.
The essays and non-fiction reprints include McLuhan's famous "The Medium is the Message" chapter from "Understanding Media," as well as essays from Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Andrew Postman (writing about his father, Neil), Nicholas Carr, Judy Wacjman, Henry Jenkins, James Patrick Kelly and Cory Doctorow, as well as Vannevar Bush's famous "As We May Think" article for the July, 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. There is also a speech from Timothy Berners-Lee that was delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives on the future of the World Wide Web.
With an introduction by Paul Levinson of Fordham University.
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