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Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology

by Howard Rheingold

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Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology is a work of "retrospective futurism" in which Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold looked at the history of computing and then attempted to predict what the networked world might look like in the mid-1990s. -- Provided by publisher

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Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker on social media, is the author of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution and many other books.

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Published: 1985
Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, General Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS: 303.48
LCC: QA76.5 .R467

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