What is Moore's Law? (from Intel)
Making Use of Moore's Law
The Underside of Moore's Law (Howard Rheingold)
Introduction from Unleashing the Killer App: digital strategies for market dominance (Larry Downes and Chunka Mui) [see for Metcalfe's Law]
An Update on Moore's Law (Moore on Moore)
...things 'everybody' seems to be doing, like thinking that everything is somehow available on the Web. A listserv posting to STS-L describes "WWW Syndrome of Research" as being akin to "the 1967 Syndrome", in which users of a CD-ROM index to Water Resources Abstracts just didn't use anything older than 1967, when the CD-ROM started... the information was essentially 'lost'.
my own Chronology, or bits of it anyhowand Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive project
and The Dead Media Project, for some perspective (see griffin for source)
Danny Hillis on remembering and forgetting
Explore The Electronic Labyrinth's version of the history of hypertextand look at our holdings of books in the area
some definitions from The Hacker's DictionaryLandow's Overview and Marshall McLuhan Meets William Gibson in "Cyberspace" (Michael E. Doherty)
steersman/control/homeostasis: Weiner, Ashby, feedback... but from what bits of early-1980s lexical space did William Gibson assemble 'cyberspace'?
"An imaginary locus of interaction created by communal agreement" (Stone, in Benedikt Cyberspace : first steps pg 84)
'cyberspace' search in Annie (to give an idea of the variety)
...and how the Web has changed how we work. See Web Developer's Virtual Library, Scout Report Signpost, among others
"marginal subcultures" --Chesher
Welcome to the Laser Decade (Paul Saffo)
Another Formula for Intelligence: The Neural Net Paradigm (Ray Kurzweil), and Kevin Gurney's course material
Colonizing Virtual Reality: Construction of the Discourse of Virtual Reality, 1984-1992 (Chris Chesher)
Computers are especially ungainly devices, so manufacturers count on users to meet their incomplete inventions more than halfway. The happy captives are said to be computer literate --tame and tractable, and expert at making up for the manufacturers' design failings. (Paul Saffo, in Terry Winograd's Bringing Design to Software, 1996:89-90)