Product Description

With this book the author of "City of Bits" and "E-topia" completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. He describes the transformation of wireless technology in the 100 years since Marconi - the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. This transformation has, in turn, changed our relationship with our surroundings and with each other. Thus Mitchell proposes that the "trial separation" of bits (the elementary unit of information) and atoms (the elementary unit of matter) is over. With increasing frequency, events in physical space reflect events in cyberspace, and vice versa; digital information can, for example, direct the movement of an aircraft or a robot arm. In this book Mitchell examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities and our uses of space and time. He argues that a world governed less and less by boundaries and more and more by connections requires us to re-imagine and reconstruct our environment and to reconsider the ethical foundations of design, engineering and planning practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #919213 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 269 pages

RIBA Journal, November 2003
…Bill Mitchell... first offered himself as a guide to the treacherous waters between traditional architecture and the wonders of digitisation. Me++ concludes the 'informal trilogy' by considering the implications of micro and nano technology.