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Tools for Thought

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology is a work of "retrospective futurism" in which Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold looked at the history of computing and then attempted to predict what the networked world might look like in the mid-1990s. The book covers the groundbreaking work of thinkers like Alan Turing, John von…

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Tools for Thought

Nodes12
Edges11
Triples5
Avg. degree1.83
Density0.166667
Components1

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Tools for Thought

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Tools for Thought → April, MIT Press, Rheingold, Thought, Tools

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Tools for Thoughtrelated to External linksMIT Press0.60section
Tools for Thoughtrelated to External linksTools0.60section
Tools for Thoughtrelated to External linksThought0.60section
Tools for Thoughtrelated to External linksApril0.60section
Tools for Thoughtrelated to External linksRheingold0.60section

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