Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its DiscontentsWith a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier |
Contents
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1 Transactions | 17 |
2 Sushi | 39 |
3 Real Estate | 53 |
4 Software and Suburbia | 65 |
5 New Old and Middle Age | 95 |
6 Virtuality | 123 |
7 Money | 149 |
8 The Passionate Engineer | 175 |
9 Driving | 185 |
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