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Also by Paul Levinson:

The Plot to Save Socrates, February 2006
Hardcover
The Pixel Eye, June 2004
Trade Size (reprint)
Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium, and How It Has Transformed Everything!, April 2004
Hardcover
Consciousness Plague, August 2003
Paperback (reprint)
Realspace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, On and Off Planet, June 2003
Trade Size (reprint)
Borrowed Tides, January 2002
Paperback (reprint)
Digital McLuhan, May 2001
Hardcover
The Silk Code, November 2000
Paperback (reprint)
The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution, October 1998
Paperback (reprint)

THE SOFT EDGE: A NATURAL HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION
By: Paul Levinson

Taylor
October 1998
280 pages
ISBN: 0415197724
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction

Boldly extending and deepening the pathways blazed by Marshall McLuhan, Paul Levinson presents an engaging tour of how communications media have been responsible for major developments in history and for the significant changes in our personal and social lives today. The Soft Edge explores how information technologies influence events in decisive ways at crucial times in history and how they are selected for survival based on how well they accommodate human needs. Using often original and unusual interpretations of both historic and recent events, Levinson brilliantly displays the role new media plays in society, the effects that human choice has on this (r)evolution, and what's in store for us in the future.