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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Personalize
- No
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adult
- Inscribed
- NO
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Vintage
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- ISBN
- 9780262693264
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262693267
ISBN-13
9780262693264
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46594200
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shaping Things
Number of Pages
152 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Social Aspects, History
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering
Book Series
Mediaworks Pamphlets Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-051095
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Now, with Shaping Things , design gets full-court consideration in a powerfully argued thesis tracking the profession's trajectory toward a new product order...On top of being one of the most strikingly insightful little volumes on the design shelves, Shaping Things , designed by Lorraine Wild, is one of the most originally and empathically crafted pieces of evidence that artifacts do evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a more sophisticated relationship to the things around us we take for granted., " Shaping Things is really about shaping experiences. Sterling brilliantly makes you more aware of experiences that your customers have-or don"t have-with objects.... Shaping Things presents a robust typology of technologies to inspire marketers and provoke innovators into rethinking their market offerings" essential qualities." Michael Schrage Across the Board Magazine, Shaping Things is really about shaping experiences. Sterling brilliantly makes you more aware of experiences that your customers have--or don't have--with objects... Shaping Things presents a robust typology of technologies to inspire marketers and provoke innovators into rethinking their market offerings' essential qualities., "It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year....I can tell that this isa book I'll return to again and again and get more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful andtimely work that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal informationresources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no better primer for putting it all together."Cory Doctorow BoingBoing, Now, with Shaping Things , design gets full-court consideration in a powerfully argued thesis tracking the profession's trajectory toward a new product order...On top of being one of the most strikingly insightful little volumes on the design shelves, Shaping Things , designed by Lorraine Wild, is one of the most originally and empathically crafted pieces of evidence that artifacts do evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a more sophisticated relationship to the things around us we take for granted.-- Architect's Newspaper -- Shaping Things is full of entirely readable large ideas, made palatable by Lorraine Wild's clean but evocative book design. The whole project exudes a confidence-building, you-too-can-be-an-architect-of-the-future tone, much like the work of Buckminster Fuller, who like Sterling was a practical visionary and often had to create a new language to describe his ideas...In the end, Shaping Things asks us to consider how we can create a sustainable future, using all the information available to us as consumers, without the preachiness that accompanies the environmental and sustainable lifestyle movements. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review -- Shaping Things is really about shaping experiences. Sterling brilliantly makes you more aware of experiences that your customers have--or don't have--with objects... Shaping Things presents a robust typology of technologies to inspire marketers and provoke innovators into rethinking their market offerings' essential qualities. -- Michael Schrage -- It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year...I can tell that this is a book I'll return to again and again and get more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and timely work that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal information resources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no better primer for putting it all together. -- Cory Doctorow , BoingBoing --, Shaping Things is really about shaping experiences. Sterling brilliantly makes you more aware of experiences that your customers have -- or don't have -- with objects... Shaping Things presents a robust typology of technologies to inspire marketers and provoke innovators into rethinking their market offerings' essential qualities., Shaping Things is full of entirely readable large ideas, made palatable by Lorraine Wild"s clean but evocative book design. The whole project exudes a confidence-building, you-too-can-be-an-architect-of-the-future tone, much like the work of Buckminster Fuller, who like Sterling was a practical visionary and often had to create a new language to describe his ideas.... In the end, Shaping Things asks us to consider how we can create a sustainable future, using all the information available to us as consumers, without the preachiness that accompanies the environmental and sustainable lifestyle movements., "It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year....I can tell that this is a book I'll return to again and again and get more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and timely work that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal information resources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no better primer for putting it all together." -- Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing, " Shaping Things is full of entirely readable large ideas, madepalatable by Lorraine Wild"s clean but evocative book design. The whole project exudes aconfidence-building, you-too-can-be-an-architect-of-the-future tone, much like the work ofBuckminster Fuller, who like Sterling was a practical visionary and often had to create a newlanguage to describe his ideas.... In the end, Shaping Things asks us to considerhow we can create a sustainable future, using all the information available to us as consumers,without the preachiness that accompanies the environmental and sustainable lifestyle movements." Los Angeles Times Book Review, It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year...I can tell that this is a book I'll return to again and again and get more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and timely work that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal information resources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no better primer for putting it all together., "Now, with Shaping Things, design gets full-court consideration in a powerfully argued thesis tracking the profession's trajectory toward a new product order.... On top of being one of the most strikingly insightful little volumes on the design shelves, Shaping Things, designed by Lorraine Wild, is one of the most originally and empathically crafted pieces of evidence that artifacts do evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a more sophisticated relationship to the things around us we take for granted." Architect's Newspaper, & " Shaping Things is full of entirely readable large ideas, made palatable by Lorraine Wild's clean but evocative book design. The whole project exudes a confidence-building, you-too-can-be-an-architect-of-the-future tone, much like the work of Buckminster Fuller, who like Sterling was a practical visionary and often had to create a new language to describe his ideas.... In the end, Shaping Things asks us to consider how we can create a sustainable future, using all the information available to us as consumers, without the preachiness that accompanies the environmental and sustainable lifestyle movements.& " -- Los Angeles Times Book Review, ""Shaping Things" is really about shaping experiences. Sterling brilliantly makes you more aware of experiences that your customers have-or don't have-with objects. . . . Shaping Things presents a robust typology of technologies to inspire marketers and provoke innovators into rethinking their market offerings' essential qualities." -- Michael Schrage, "Across the Board Magazine", Shaping Things is really about shaping experiences. Sterling brilliantly makes you more aware of experiences that your customers have-or don"t have-with objects.... Shaping Things presents a robust typology of technologies to inspire marketers and provoke innovators into rethinking their market offerings" essential qualities., Now, with Shaping Things , design gets full-court consideration in a powerfully argued thesis tracking the profession's trajectory toward a new product order.... On top of being one of the most strikingly insightful little volumes on the design shelves, Shaping Things , designed by Lorraine Wild, is one of the most originally and empathically crafted pieces of evidence that artifacts do evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a more sophisticated relationship to the things around us we take for granted., Shaping Things is full of entirely readable large ideas, made palatable by Lorraine Wild's clean but evocative book design. The whole project exudes a confidence-building, you-too-can-be-an-architect-of-the-future tone, much like the work of Buckminster Fuller, who like Sterling was a practical visionary and often had to create a new language to describe his ideas...In the end, Shaping Things asks us to consider how we can create a sustainable future, using all the information available to us as consumers, without the preachiness that accompanies the environmental and sustainable lifestyle movements., "Now, with Shaping Things,design gets full-court consideration in a powerfully argued thesis tracking the profession's trajectory toward a new product order. . . . On top of being one of the most strikingly insightful little volumes on the design shelves, Shaping Things,designed by Lorraine Wild, is one of the most originally and empathically crafted pieces of evidence that artifacts do evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a more sophisticated relationship to the things around us we take for granted." - Architect's Newspaper, It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year....I can tell that this is a book I'll return to again and again and get more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and timely work that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal information resources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no better primer for putting it all together., "Now, with Shaping Things, design gets full-court consideration in a powerfullyargued thesis tracking the profession's trajectory toward a new product order.... On top of beingone of the most strikingly insightful little volumes on the design shelves, Shaping Things, designedby Lorraine Wild, is one of the most originally and empathically crafted pieces of evidence thatartifacts do evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a more sophisticated relationship tothe things around us we take for granted." Architect's Newspaper, "It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year....I can tell that this is a book I'll return to again and again and get more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and timely work that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal information resources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no better primer for putting it all together." Cory Doctorow BoingBoing, " Shaping Things is full of entirely readable large ideas, made palatable by Lorraine Wild"s clean but evocative book design. The whole project exudes a confidence-building, you-too-can-be-an-architect-of-the-future tone, much like the work of Buckminster Fuller, who like Sterling was a practical visionary and often had to create a new language to describe his ideas.... In the end, Shaping Things asks us to consider how we can create a sustainable future, using all the information available to us as consumers, without the preachiness that accompanies the environmental and sustainable lifestyle movements." Los Angeles Times Book Review, " Shaping Things is really about shaping experiences. Sterlingbrilliantly makes you more aware of experiences that your customers have-or don"t have-withobjects.... Shaping Things presents a robust typology of technologies to inspire marketers andprovoke innovators into rethinking their market offerings" essential qualities." Michael Schrage Across the Board Magazine
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
745.2
Synopsis
A guide to the next great wave of technology-an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. " Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds- "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic." Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex machines, to the current era of "gizmos." New forms of design and manufacture are appearing that lack historical precedent, he writes; but the production methods, using archaic forms of energy and materials that are finite and toxic, are not sustainable. The future will see a new kind of object; we have the primitive forms of them now in our pockets and briefcases- user-alterable, baroquely multi-featured, and programmable, that will be sustainable, enhanceable, and uniquely identifiable. Sterling coins the term "spime" for them, these future-manufactured objects with informational support so extensive and rich that they are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Spimes are designed on screens, fabricated by digital means, and precisely tracked through space and time. They are made of substances that can be folded back into the production stream of future spimes, challenging all of us to become involved in their production. Spimes are coming, says Sterling. We will need these objects in order to live; we won't be able to surrender their advantages without awful consequences. The vision of Shaping Things is given material form by the intricate design of Lorraine Wild. Shaping Things is for designers and thinkers, engineers and scientists, entrepreneurs and financiers; and anyone who wants to understand and be part of the process of technosocial transformation., A guide to the next great wave of technology--an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. " Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds: "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic." Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex machines, to the current era of "gizmos." New forms of design and manufacture are appearing that lack historical precedent, he writes; but the production methods, using archaic forms of energy and materials that are finite and toxic, are not sustainable. The future will see a new kind of object; we have the primitive forms of them now in our pockets and briefcases: user-alterable, baroquely multi-featured, and programmable, that will be sustainable, enhanceable, and uniquely identifiable. Sterling coins the term "spime" for them, these future-manufactured objects with informational support so extensive and rich that they are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Spimes are designed on screens, fabricated by digital means, and precisely tracked through space and time. They are made of substances that can be folded back into the production stream of future spimes, challenging all of us to become involved in their production. Spimes are coming, says Sterling. We will need these objects in order to live; we won't be able to surrender their advantages without awful consequences. The vision of Shaping Things is given material form by the intricate design of Lorraine Wild. Shaping Things is for designers and thinkers, engineers and scientists, entrepreneurs and financiers; and anyone who wants to understand and be part of the process of technosocial transformation., A guide to the next great wave of technology -- an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system.
LC Classification Number
T174.S77 2005
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