TCW: Ubicomp and Ubimedia Reading List
Discover the definitive TCW reading list on ubicomp and ubimedia, featuring Bruce Sterling’s The Caryatids and Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs. Explore curated books on ubiquitous computing and media.
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Smart Mobs
by Howard Rheingold
Smart Mobs takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile communications-cellular phones, wireless-paging, and Internet-access devices-that will allow us to connect with anyone, anytime, anywhere.Rheingold offers a penetrating perspective on the new convergence of pop culture, cutting-edge technology, and social activism. He also reminds us that the real impact of mobile communications will come not from the technology itself but from how people use it, resist it, and adapt to it.
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Ubik
by Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.
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The Caryatids
by Bruce Sterling
Despite the family history that has led to their estrangement from one another, three identical clone sisters hold the key to saving the world from global warming, runaway pollution, and political intrigue.
