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Shaping Things
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Shaping Things Paperback - 2005

by Sterling, Bruce

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The author offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. He says the future will bring user-alterable, baroquely multi-featured, and programmable replacements for what's in briefcases and pockets today.

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MIT Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title Shaping Things
  • Author Sterling, Bruce
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP60015586
  • ISBN 9780262693264 / 0262693267
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.48 x 5.6 x 0.3 in (19.00 x 14.22 x 0.76 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Technological forecasting, Technology assessment
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005051095
  • Dewey Decimal Code 745.2

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Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 130

About the author

Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and futurist Bruce Sterling has been called by Time "perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre." Three of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and he has been a contributing writer for Wired since its conception. In 2005 he is "Visionary-in-Residence" at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Bruce Sterling's blog Beyond the Beyond has been active since 2003.

Lorraine Wild is an award-winning designer, a founder of Greybull Press, and a member of the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.

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