Books

John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3 and the New Pioneers of Music. New York: Perseus Press, 2001.

This was one of the first books to cover the controversy surrounding downloadable music.

David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, eds., The Cybercultures Reader. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Essays in this anthology discuss topics such as feminism, sexuality, posthumanism, and human—machine interaction in the context of new technologies.

Tim Berners—Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

Tim Berners—Lee believes the Web belongs to the people of the world, not to a single company. The book gives readers insights not only into the process of creating the Web, but also into the inventor's philosophy about what it is and must continue to be.

Frances Cairncross, The Death of Distance...