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Publication
Penguin Books (1988), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 304 pages
Description
Brand goes inside the world of MIT's Media Lab, famed for leading the reinvention of communition technology and applying computer science to daily life in new ways. The lab has led innovations in such fields as digital and computer programming, videocassette technology, e-mail, and holograms.
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Many of the predictions were variations of "personalized information portals" but without discussion of the content bubble these could create. Nobody quite seemed to put their finger on the World Wide Web, exactly. A perhaps ridiculous amount of text dedicated to holography. Most interesting was/is
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Physical description
304 p.; 6 x 0.75 inches
ISBN
0140097015 / 9780140097016
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