User:Amy Suo Wu/As We May Think

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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/as-we-may-think/3881/

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Book of Imaginary Media.

What are the current dreams, hopes and disappointments of the Interent, digital?

  • 'When considering the panorama of the failed hopes of machinic imagination, a feeling lingers that technology is all about desire, frustration, deficiency, and hope of salvation-terms that sound predominately religious..."