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The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth About Internet Culture

The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth About Internet Culture

A skeptic by nature, a writer and teacher more at home with ballpoint pens than computer programs, Dinty W. Moore wanted to find out for himself if the much-touted Internet and the electronic culture it has spawned is really going to be the Next Big Thing, or whether it's the emperor's new clothes. This is not a how-to guide, a giddy net-head's online magical mystery tour, or a binaries-in-the-sky futurist treatise. Instead, this book tells it like it is about the Internet. Anyone who's asked, Who's there? What am I missing? and What is it all about? will find Moore's good-natured skepticism a welcome break from the explosion of wide-eyed techno-hype raging all around us. "Moore is far and away the best pure writer of the 'Wired School.' He's like the Stage Manager poking his head in around the set of 'Our Town.' Funny that it took the arrival of this commonsensical outsider to finally put a real human face on the digital world."--San Jose Mercury-News.

Preface: Into the Electronic Woods

Chapter 1. How Do We Get On?

Chapter 2. In Search of Useful Uses

Chapter 3. Public Relationships

Chapter 4. My Brain Turns to Mush

Chapter 5. Digital Hugs

Chapter 6. Hanging Over the Electronic Fence

Chapter 7. The Zippo Chapter

Chapter 8. Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam

Chapter 9. Why We Pay Our Civil Servants So Much Money

Chapter 10. The Incredible Shrinking Globe

Chapter 11. The Night Thoreau Had Cybersex

Chapter 12. Big Brother and the Bad Boys

Chapter 13. And If Your Head Has Somehow Not Yet Exploded, Let Me Briefly Discuss the Future

Chapter 14. Back to Nature

Appendix

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