How we saw the future (in the 1990s)

Some context-specific readings from the IT debates (as debated at a given historical moment), which may have fed into subsequent discussions of social networks etc:

Brook, J & Boal, I A (eds) (1995) Resisting the Virtual Life: the Culture and Politics of Information. San Francisco: City Lights

Dovey, J (ed) (1996) Fractal Dreams: New Media in Social Context. London: Lawrence and Wishart

Feldman, T (1997) An Introduction to Digital Media. London: Routledge

Forester, T & Morrison, P (1994) Computer Ethics: Cautionary Tales and Ethical Dilemmas in Computing. Oxford: Blackwell

Gates, B (1996) The Road Ahead (revised edn). London: Penguin

Gates, B (1999) Business at the Speed of Thought. London: Penguin

Gill, K (ed) (1996) Information Society: New Media, Ethics and Postmodernism. London: Springer

Landow, George (1997) Hypertext 2.0: Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (2nd revised edn). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP

Landow, George (ed) (1995) Hyper-Text-Theory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP

Loader, B (ed) (1997) The Governance of Cyberspace. London: Routledge

Lyon, D (1988) The Information Society: Issues and Illusions. Cambridge: Polity

Lyon, D (1994) The Electronic Eye: The Rise of the Surveillance Society. University of Minneapolis

Negroponte, N (1995) Being Digital. London: Hodder and Stoughton

Rheingold, H (1994) The Virtual Community: Finding Connection in a Computerized World. London: Secker and Warburg

Roszak, T (1994) The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking. London: University of California Press

Rushkoff, D (1994) Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace. London: HarperCollins

Sardar, Z & Ferome, R (eds) (1996) Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Highway. London: Pluto Press

Silverstone, R & Hirsch, E (eds) (1992) Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces. London and New York: Routledge

Smith, A (1996) Software for the Self: Culture and Technology. London: Faber

Stallabrass, J (1996) Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture. London: Verso

Sterling, B (1993) The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. London: Penguin

Stoll, C (1995) Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway. London: Macmillan

Woolley, B (1992) Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality. Oxford: Blackwell

Fiction

Brooke-Rose, Christine (1990) Verbivore. Manchester: Carcanet

Forster, E M (1947) 'The Machine Stops' in Collected Short Stories. London: Penguin

Gibson, W (1986) Neuromancer. London: Corgi

Stephenson, Neal (1994) Snow Crash. London: Penguin

Films

Blade Runner (1982)

Hackers (1995)

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

The Net (1995)

Strange Days (1995)