01788pam a2200325Ia 4500 ebr10017182 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 970214s1998 enk sb 001 0 eng d 97007248 0415157854 0415197724 (pbk.) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)70740074 T58.5 .L385 1998eb 302.23 21 Levinson, Paul. The soft edge [electronic resource] : a natural history and future of the information revolution / Paul Levinson. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. xviii, 257 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index. The first digital medium -- The printed authorship of the modern world -- The age of photography and the ageless image -- Telegraphy -- Telephone -- Electricity -- Radio -- Survival of the media fit -- Remedial media -- Word processing and its masters -- The online author as publisher and bookstore -- Hypertext and author/reader inversions -- The open Web and its enemies -- Twentieth-Century screens -- Paper futures -- Electronic watermarks -- Artificial intelligence in real life -- You can't touch that in cyberspace. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Information technology History. Information technology Forecasting. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10017182 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 12240 12240