This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs--many of                  them now almost impossible to find--that chronicle the history and form the                  foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet                  Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place                  the works in their historical context and explain their significance. The texts were                  originally published between World War II--when digital computing, cybernetic                  feedback, and early notions of hypertext and the Internet first appeared--and the                  emergence of the World Wide Web--when they entered the mainstream of public life.The                  texts are by computer scientists, artists, architects, literary writers, interface                  designers, cultural critics, and individuals working across disciplines. The                  contributors include (chronologically) Jorge Luis Borges, Vannevar Bush, Alan                  Turing, Ivan Sutherland, William S. Burroughs, Ted Nelson, Italo Calvino, Marshall                  McLuhan, Billy Kl?Jean Baudrillard, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, Bill Viola,                  Sherry Turkle, Richard Stallman, Brenda Laurel, Langdon Winner, Robert Coover, and                  Tim Berners-Lee. The CD accompanying the book contains examples of early games,                  digital art, independent literary efforts, software created at universities, and                  home-computer commercial software. Also on the CD is digitized video, documenting                  new media programs and artwork for which no operational version exists. One example                  is a video record of Douglas Engelbart's first presentation of the mouse, word                  processor, hyperlink, computer-supported cooperative work, video conferencing, and                  the dividing up of the screen we now call non-overlapping windows; another is                  documentation of Lynn Hershman's Lorna, the first interactive video art                  installation.

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