Synopsis
About John Seabrook
See more books from this AuthorWe see Seabrook experimenting with cybersex (with his wife hovering over his shoulder), putting up a home page on the World Wide Web, and suffering professional criticism by other writers on the WELL, an online service heavily populated by journalists.
| Read Full Review of Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey i...His discussion of ""point-and-click thinking,"" for example, reveals the obvious: that the Web is not a linear medium, that surfing it via a mouse is more ""mindful than watching MTV."" Deeper, or at least fresher, ideas--e.g., that surfing the hyperlinked Web may induce paradigmatic addictive be...
| Read Full Review of Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey i...And although the technology and the virtual communities of the cyberworld could inspire, as he puts it, "that special lightness of hope and possibility" that he associated with a cultural revolution, Seabrook eventually became disillusioned by the burgeoning commercialism, the often-brutal online...
Mar 31 1997 | Read Full Review of Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey i...From "Johnny Lonesome Come to Town," first published in 1956, to "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," originally written for a family member's B&B off Baker street, to "Sir Milk-and-Blood," a new tale of Elric the Eternal Champion, each story not only glorifies a keen sense of duty and re...
Sep 19 1997 | Read Full Review of Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey i...An aggregated and normalized score based on 10 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes