Hard, Soft and Wet: Digital Generation Comes of Age

by Melanie McGrath

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First published in 1997 and now available as an ebook.

Who are the digital generation? They are the millions of youngsters who live with, and love, the technology with which they are growing up. This is their story. Tomorrow belongs to them.

'This is the book which opens up the electronic frontier to those still left out in the cold, the one McLuhan would have written were he to be still surfing the Nineties' Arena. 'At once a romance, a cultural commentary, and a piece of travel writing which adds the virtual world to its itinerary as though it were a new place on the map. ' Sadie Plant, The Times

Not another book about youth culture, nor cyberpunks, hackers and VR; not a computing manual; not the history of technology; but a book about the first generation of people to take the information age for granted.

A personal portrait of the Wired Generation, exploring the dreams, ambitions, aesthetics and assumptions of all the kids growing up digital, worldwide.

In these days of video games, PCs, multimedia and personal stereos, it's all too easy for the sensitive kids to disappear into worlds of their own, and it happens so quickly - one birthday they're chirpy and sociable, the next they stay home to watch Robocop for the thirty-seventh time or play Mortal Kombat yet again.

  • ISBN10 0002555867
  • ISBN13 9780002555869
  • Publish Date 24 April 1997
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 15 October 1998
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English