Technological Vision Book

	Introduction : technological visions and the rhetoric of the new	1
1	"Spinning" technology : what we are not thinking about when we are thinking about computers	19
2	Sow's ears from silk purses : the strange alchemy of technological visionaries	34
3	Mediums and media	48
4	Mobilities of time and space : technologies of the modern and the postmodern	71
5	Man-made futures, man-made pasts	92
6	Portable TV : studies in domestic space travels	110
7	Science fiction film and the technological imagination	145
8	Technological prediction : a promethean problem	159
9	The future of prediction	177
10	Penguins, predictions, and technological optimism : a skeptic's view	186
11	Information superhighways, virtual communities, and digital libraries : information society metaphors as political rhetoric	201
12	Rethinking the cyberbody : hackers, viruses, and cultural anxiety	219
13	Peaceable kingdoms and new information technologies : prospects for the nation-state	240
14	Somewhere there's a place for us : sexual minorities and the internet	255
15	Surfin' the net : children, parental obsolescence, and citizenship	270
16	When the virtual isn't enough	293
17	Place matters : journeys through global and local spaces	305
18	The globalization of everyday life : visions and reality	339