To chart our future course it is critical that we not loose sight of the best ideas of the past, particularly where they have fallen out of fashion.
The New Media Reader* (ISBN: 978-0-262-23227-2) edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort is a critical volume assembling such classic papers as Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think”, J.C.R. Licklider’s “Man-Computer Symbiosis”, and Douglas Engelbart and William English’s “A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect” along with complete documents and excerpts from countless other seminal works.1
These key references will directly inform the architecture of our information technology infrastructure.
- *This title was also typeset as theNewMediaReader and comes bundled with a CD ROM of videos demonstrating many of the systems discussed.
- 1.Wardrip-Fruin N. The New Media Reader. MIT Press; 2003.