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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Philip K. Dick
Philip K Dick s Electric Dreams Book PDF

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781328995094

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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K. Dick Pdf

From the iconic author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, stories that inspired the original dramatic series. Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams collects ten of the best. In “Autofac,” Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. “Exhibit Piece” and “The Commuter” feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists. And “The Hanging Stranger” provides a thrilling, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when Dick wrote it at the height of the Cold War. Strange, funny, and powerful, the stories in this collection highlight a master at work, encapsulating his boundless imagination and deep understanding of the human condition. Praise for Philip K. Dick “In his top form, Philip K. Dick rivals Kurt Vonnegut.”—New York Times “Dick is one of the ten best American writers of the twentieth century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a kind of Kafka steeped in LSD and rage.”—Roberto Bolaño

Electronic Dreams

Tom Lean
Electronic Dreams Book PDF

Author : Tom Lean
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781472918352

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Electronic Dreams by Tom Lean Pdf

How did computers invade the homes and cultural life of 1980s Britain? Remember the ZX Spectrum? Ever have a go at programming with its stretchy rubber keys? How about the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, or Commodore 64? Did you marvel at the immense galaxies of Elite, master digital kung-fu in Way of the Exploding Fist or lose yourself in the surreal caverns of Manic Miner? For anyone who was a kid in the 1980s, these iconic computer brands are the stuff of legend. In Electronic Dreams, Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother and embraced the wonder-technology of the 1980s. This book charts the history of the rise and fall of the home computer, the family of futuristic and quirky machines that took computing from the realm of science and science fiction to being a user-friendly domestic technology. It is a tale of unexpected consequences, when the machines that parents bought to help their kids with homework ended up giving birth to the video games industry, and of unrealised ambitions, like the ahead-of-its-time Prestel network that first put the British home online but failed to change the world. Ultimately, it's the story of the people who made the boom happen, the inventors and entrepreneurs like Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar seeking new markets, bedroom programmers and computer hackers, and the millions of everyday folk who bought in to the electronic dream and let the computer into their lives.

Electric Dreams

Ted Friedman
Electric Dreams Book PDF

Author : Ted Friedman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780814727393

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Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles to define the meanings of these powerful machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage’s “difference engine” in the nineteenth century to contemporary struggles over file swapping, open source software, and the future of online journalism. To reveal the hopes and fears inspired by computers, Electric Dreams examines a wide range of texts, including films, advertisements, novels, magazines, computer games, blogs, and even operating systems. Electric Dreams argues that the debates over computers are critically important because they are how Americans talk about the future. In a society that in so many ways has given up on imagining anything better than multinational capitalism, cyberculture offers room to dream of different kinds of tomorrow.

Wrinkles in Time

George Smoot,Keay Davidson
Wrinkles in Time Book PDF

Author : George Smoot,Keay Davidson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780061344442

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Wrinkles in Time by George Smoot,Keay Davidson Pdf

Astrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, "the holy grail of science," a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. In his search he struggled against time, the elements, and the forces of ignorance and bureaucratic insanity. Finally, after years of research, Smoot and his dedicated team of Berkeley researchers succeeded in proving the unprovable—uncovering, inarguably and for all time, the secrets of the creation of the universe. Wrinkles in Time describes this startling discovery that would usher in a new scientific age—and win Smoot the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Electric Dreams

Jim'll Paint It
Electric Dreams Book PDF

Author : Jim'll Paint It
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780571315567

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Electric Dreams by Jim'll Paint It Pdf

You name it. I'll paint it. On Paint. Jim'll Paint It is an enigma. As he says on his wildly successful Tumblr and Facebook pages: Got something in your brain that you'd really like to see with your eyes? Just ask and if I like the sound of it I'll paint it for you using incredibly high tech and sophisticated MS Paint software. Generating hundreds of thousands of requests, Jim has painted everything from Brian Blessed punching a polar bear to Mary and Joseph being turned away from a Premier Inn by Lenny Henry. Here for the first time are the selected works of one of the finest and most popular artists of our day.

Electric Dreams

Caroline Kettlewell
Electric Dreams Book PDF

Author : Caroline Kettlewell
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786712716

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Presents the story of a North Carolina high school whose students successfully built an award-winning electric car.

A Thousand Dreams

Larry Campbell,Neil Boyd,Lori Culbert
A Thousand Dreams Book PDF

Author : Larry Campbell,Neil Boyd,Lori Culbert
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781926812281

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A Thousand Dreams by Larry Campbell,Neil Boyd,Lori Culbert Pdf

In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North America’s poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A Thousand Dreams raises provocative questions about the challenges confronting not only Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside but also all of North America’s major cities and offers concrete, urgently needed solutions, including: Continued support for Insite, the safe injection site Decriminalization of prostitution and drugs The transfer of addiction services to the Health Ministry, allowing detox into the medical system More government-funded SROs and more affordable social housing

Slot Car Dreams

Philippe de Lespinay
Slot Car Dreams Book PDF

Author : Philippe de Lespinay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578853582

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320 pages of slot car history with 750 photos - soft cover

The Digital Dystopias of Black Mirror and Electric Dreams

Steven Keslowitz
The Digital Dystopias of Black Mirror and Electric Dreams Book PDF

Author : Steven Keslowitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476678689

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The Digital Dystopias of Black Mirror and Electric Dreams by Steven Keslowitz Pdf

This critical examination of two dystopian television series--Black Mirror and Electric Dreams--focuses on pop culture depictions of technology and its impact on human existence. Representations of a wide range of modern and futuristic technologies are explored, from early portrayals of artificial intelligence (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1921) to digital consciousness transference as envisioned in Black Mirror's "San Junipero." These representations reflect societal anxieties about unfettered technological development and how a world infused with invasive artificial intelligence might redefine life and death, power and control. The impact of social media platforms is considered in the contexts of modern-day communication and political manipulation.

Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman
Einstein s Dreams Book PDF

Author : Alan Lightman
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367105

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A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar. Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.

The Electric State

Simon Stålenhag
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Author : Simon Stålenhag
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501181436

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NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.

He Who Dreams

Melanie Florence
He Who Dreams Book PDF

Author : Melanie Florence
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459834286

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He Who Dreams by Melanie Florence Pdf

Juggling soccer, school, friends and family leaves John with little time for anything else. One day at the local community center, following the sound of drums, he stumbles into an Indigenous dance class. Before he knows what's happening, John finds himself stumbling through beginner classes with a bunch of little girls, skipping soccer practice and letting his other responsibilities slide. When he attends a powwow and witnesses a powerful performance, he realizes that he wants to be a dancer more than anything. But the nearest class for boys is at the Native Cultural Center in the city, and he still hasn't told his family or friends about his new passion. If he wants to dance, he will have to stop hiding. Between the mocking of his teammates and the hostility of the boys in his dance class, John must find a way to balance and embrace both the Irish and Cree sides of his heritage.

Digital Dreams: Exploring the Computer as an Art Medium

Harry Borgman
Digital Dreams Exploring the Computer as an Art Medium Book PDF

Author : Harry Borgman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477181324

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Digital Dreams: Exploring the Computer as an Art Medium by Harry Borgman Pdf

Harry Borgman's professional career has spanned many fields including graphic design, cartooning and illustration. He was art director on the Chevrolet account at Campbell - Ewald advertising agency and the Chariman of the Advertising Department at the Society of Arts and Crafts ( now the College for Creative Studies ). He has written several art technique books for Watson Guptill Publications, Dover Publications recently reprinting his book "Pen and Pencil Drawing Techniques." For many years he worked as a freelance artist in Detroit, New York and Paris, France. As a painter he works in the watercolor and acrylic mediums and is also very active as a sculptor, doing wood carvings as well as wood and metal constructions. Recently he has been experimenting with the computer medium, currently creating photomontages and collages on the computer for a proposed exhibition.

Dreams from My Father

Barack Obama
Dreams from My Father Book PDF

Author : Barack Obama
Publisher : Crown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307394125

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World). “Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Praise for Dreams from My Father “Beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . This book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride’s The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williams’s Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America’s racial categories.”—Scott Turow “Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.”—The New York Times Book Review “Obama’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here “One of the most powerful books of self-discovery I’ve ever read, all the more so for its illuminating insights into the problems not only of race, class, and color, but of culture and ethnicity. It is also beautifully written, skillfully layered, and paced like a good novel.”—Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place “Dreams from My Father is an exquisite, sensitive study of this wonderful young author’s journey into adulthood, his search for community and his place in it, his quest for an understanding of his roots, and his discovery of the poetry of human life. Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white.”—Marian Wright Edelman

Dreams Come to Life: An AFK Book (Bendy #1)

Adrienne Kress
Dreams Come to Life An AFK Book Bendy 1 Book PDF

Author : Adrienne Kress
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781338343991

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Dreams Come to Life: An AFK Book (Bendy #1) by Adrienne Kress Pdf

An all-new official, original novel from the twisted world of the hit horror video game, Bendy and the Ink Machine! Seventeen-year-old Buddy has spent most of his life trying to escape the Lower East Side slums of New York City. Working as a delivery boy to support his family, Buddy wants to become an artist, a dream he's sure will never be realized. But that all changes when a delivery job puts him face-to-face with Mister Joey Drew, the eccentric owner of an animation studio.Mister Drew takes Buddy under his wing as an apprentice, thrusting him into a world unlike anything Buddy has ever seen before. There's the colorful cast of the studio, from the cranky, yet driven composer Sammy Lawrence to Dot, the writing intern and Buddy's counterpart. Working for Mister Drew, Buddy starts to think that maybe it's really as simple as Mister Drew says: Dreams do come true. But not everything at the studio is as picture-perfect as it seems . . .Something is going bump in the night at Joey Drew Studios, something that leaves behind trails of thick, dark ink. While the studio frantically works toward their latest deadline, Buddy and Dot team up to find out just what is tormenting the studio after-hours, even if it means tracking the trail to Mister Drew himself.Don't miss this official, original, pulse-pounding story from award-winning author Adrienne Kress, developed with theMeatly, Mike Mood, and Bookpast!