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English Summary/英文概要： Once there was no text messaging. No email and no social network sites like YouTube, Facebook, Bebo and MySpace. The way we live has apparently been transformed by new ways of communicating. But where did these trends start? And if they can change our behaviour, can they also change the way we think? In Cyburbia James Harkin describes how the architecture of our digital lives was built over seventy years. In a brilliant narrative that encompasses the work of crackpots, inventors and visionaries, it shows how a concept that began with the need to shoot down German bombers has evolved to govern almost everything ? from our lives online to modern films like Memento and 21 Grams, from TV shows and plays to military strategy. Gripping, revelatory and fiercely intelligent, this extraordinary book will change forever the way you think about everything you do.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 英國兩大媒體《衛報》及《金融時報》趨勢專家
精闢剖析徹底改變人類思維的網路狂潮 當你想查詢任何資訊時，Google、Youtube或Yahoo是否是你的第一個念頭，而不再翻閱報紙或電話簿?
當你想要跟朋友聯絡，Email、MSN已成為你大多時候的選擇?
你是否忙了一天之後，回到家馬上開電腦?
電腦不再僅僅是提供訊息的工具，網際網絡已經全面滲透人類生活。越來越多事情都能坐在電腦前完成。連人們之間的社會聯繫也是，社會網絡透過如YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, 部落格(yam天空)等等，人類的溝通模式已在這幾十年來有了全新的變化!這些人類發明的事物已經回頭過來改造人類思維與行為模式。網路浪潮已全然籠罩整個世界。
英國兩大媒體《衛報》及《金融時報》的趨勢觀察員James Harkin對於這新時代的現象有著透徹而有趣的觀察，這些虛擬網絡（cyburbia）如何構築一步步起來、以及對人類又將有何正面與負面影響。
Yahoo曾作一個有趣的實驗，請28位受測者兩週不能使用網路，並記錄下這兩週的心情與想法。實驗發現受測者極度依賴網路，受測者認為從報紙、電話簿中尋找資訊很麻煩。3/4的受測者說這段時間開始花較多時間跟朋友聊天、看報紙，有人教長與朋友鄰居互動。因為許多受試者發現不使用網路 不僅失去尋找資訊的管道，也害怕被排除在溝通的網絡(loop)之外。作者在書中提出許多網路對於人們的各種重要影響。(VC)
Awards/获奖情况： 版權已售：
Japanese/NHK (on proposal)
Korean/21 Publishing Group
Polish/Znak
Spanish/Critica
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