Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Reminiscent of books by other MIT luminaries like Neil Gershenfeld's When Things Start to Think (2000) and Rodney Brooks' Flesh and Machines (2002), William Mitchell's Me++ reminds me, yet again, of why it is so exciting to be alive in an age of wireless phones, high-speed data transmission, and cybernetic systems. Unfortunately, after a couple of years of reading Wired and developing a festering cynicism for high-tech solutions to social problems that have been caused by previous high-tech "solutions" (like titanic ships, combustion engines, splitting atoms, and all kinds of really horrible weapons), I am more interested in dodging technological thunderbolts than waiting to look for silver linings.
Repository Citation
Heckman, Davin. "On Mitchell's Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 4, no. 3, 2004, pp. 1–4. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol4/iss3/12