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- catalog abstract "In Software for the Self, Anthony Smith casts a wide net over society and culture, describing the effects of the "information revolution" on humankind now and suggesting what will happen in the future. Smith traces the development of entertainment describing how in the past it was something mostly outside the home but, beginning with radio and then television broadcasting, entertainment has gradually taken over the home and, indeed, transformed its organization. Moreover, mass forms of communications like radio, television and cinema are themselves currently giving way to more personal forms of communications like the Internet. Smith sees entertainment moving off in two opposite directions: towards the "big spectacular communal experience" like Disney World on the one hand, and, on the other, towards solitary interaction on a computer. He believes it quite possible that a new generation will look no further than their computers for information and entertainment. Smith sees entertainment itself becoming more central to culture and society because people will have increasingly more leisure time. Although hightech advances have been made in the world of information exchange, science, commerce, industry, and defense. Smith believes entertainment is crucial to the forms that new technology will take and the uses to which they will be put. As Smith pointedly says, "the entertainment industry, alongside the health industry, is as close as any other to the things that people actually want and are willing to pay for."".
- catalog alternative "Technology and culture.".
- catalog contributor b9052916.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "I. Arts and Governments -- II. The Arts in an Age of Bureaucracy -- III. Making Culture Prevail: Arnold's Vision and Television -- IV. Information as Paradigm of Culture -- V. New Technologies and New Illusions -- Postscript: The Future of Entertainment -- a speculation.".
- catalog description "In Software for the Self, Anthony Smith casts a wide net over society and culture, describing the effects of the "information revolution" on humankind now and suggesting what will happen in the future. Smith traces the development of entertainment describing how in the past it was something mostly outside the home but, beginning with radio and then television broadcasting, entertainment has gradually taken over the home and, indeed, transformed its organization. Moreover, mass forms of communications like radio, television and cinema are themselves currently giving way to more personal forms of communications like the Internet. Smith sees entertainment moving off in two opposite directions: towards the "big spectacular communal experience" like Disney World on the one hand, and, on the other, towards solitary interaction on a computer. He believes it quite possible that a new generation will look no further than their computers for information and entertainment.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-128).".
- catalog description "Smith sees entertainment itself becoming more central to culture and society because people will have increasingly more leisure time. Although hightech advances have been made in the world of information exchange, science, commerce, industry, and defense. Smith believes entertainment is crucial to the forms that new technology will take and the uses to which they will be put. As Smith pointedly says, "the entertainment industry, alongside the health industry, is as close as any other to the things that people actually want and are willing to pay for."".
- catalog extent "xi, 128 ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Software for the self.".
- catalog identifier "0195039009".
- catalog isFormatOf "Software for the self.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Software for the self.".
- catalog subject "Arts and society.".
- catalog subject "Information technology Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Mass media Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "T58.5 .S64 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Arts and Governments -- II. The Arts in an Age of Bureaucracy -- III. Making Culture Prevail: Arnold's Vision and Television -- IV. Information as Paradigm of Culture -- V. New Technologies and New Illusions -- Postscript: The Future of Entertainment -- a speculation.".
- catalog title "Software for the self : technology and culture / Anthony Smith.".
- catalog title "Technology and culture.".
- catalog type "text".