Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (Software Studies)

Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (Software Studies) by: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
The MIT Press (2011) | ISBN: 0262015420 | 538 pages | PDF | 1.35 MB

New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things--mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates "programmed visions," which seek to shape and predict--even embody--a future based on past data.