Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)

by Bruce Sterling

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A guide to the next great wave of technology—an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system.

"Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds: "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic."

Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex machines, to the current era of "gizmos." New forms of design and manufacture...

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  • ISBN10 0262693267
  • ISBN13 9780262693264
  • Publish Date 7 October 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Imprint The MIT Press