Future Montfort Nick Associate Professor of Digital Media Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPaperback
Future Montfort Nick Associate Professor of Digital Media Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPaperback How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors,…
Specifikacia Future Montfort Nick Associate Professor of Digital Media Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPaperback
Future Montfort Nick Associate Professor of Digital Media Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPaperback
How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.The future is like an unwritten book. In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge series, Nick Montfort argues that the future is something to be made, not predicted. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can only hope to predict, like the weather.
Montfort's approach is not that of futurology or scenario planning; instead, he reports on the work of making the future--the thinkers who devoted themselves to writing pages in the unwritten book. Montfort offers what he considers essential knowledge about the future, as seen in the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers (mainly in Western culture) who developed and described the core components of the futures they envisioned. Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and Ted Nelson didn't predict the future