AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Technological Visions and the Rhetoric of the New - Marita Sturken and Douglas Thomas1. "Spinning" Technology: What We Are Not Thinking about When We Are Thinking about Computers - Sherry Turkle2. Sow's Ears from Silk Purses: The Strange Alchemy of Technological Visionaries - Langdon Winner3. Mediums and Media - Jeffrey Sconce4. Mobilities of Time and Space: Technologies of the Modern and the Postmodern - Marita Sturken5. Man-made Futures, Man-made Pasts - Lord Asa Briggs6. Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travels - Lynn Spigel7. Science Fiction Film and the Technological Imagination - Vivian Sobchack8.

Technological Prediction: A Promethean Problem - David E. Nye9. The Future of Prediction - John Perry Barlow10. Penguins, Predictions, and Technological Optimism: A Skeptic's View - Wendy M. Grossman11. Information Superhighways, Virtual Communities, and Digital Libraries: Information Society Metaphors as Political Rhetoric - Peter Lyman12. Rethinking the Cyberbody: Hackers, Viruses, and Cultural Anxiety - Douglas Thomas13. Peaceable Kingdoms and New Information Technologies: Prospects for the Nation-State - Carolyn Marvin14.

Somewhere There's a Place for Us: Sexual Minorities and the Internet - Larry Gross15. Surfin' the Net: Children, Parental Obsolescence, and Citizenship - Sarah Banet-Weiser16. When the Virtual Isn't Enough - Katie Hafner17. Place Matters: Journeys through Global and Local Spaces - Richard Chabr´an and Romelia Salinas18. The Globalization of Everyday Life: Vision and Reality - Jennifer Gibbs, Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, Joo-Young Jung, Yong-Chan Kim, and Jack Linchaun QiuAbout the ContributorsIndex.