I recently decided to plow through several Technoculture texts among which Shaping Things is considered to be the most baffling and intriguing. Written by a futurist, Bruce Sterling, this book deals with SPIMES:Manufactured objects whose informational support is so overwhelmingly extensive and rich that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system.
This little pamphlet is just over 150 pages long but will keep you thoroughly entertained and sufficiently confused. It’s a good stimulant for one’s atrophied imagination and an ambitious attempt to predict the technological advancement of the next 100 years.
