SHAPING THINGS by Sterling, Bruce - 2005

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2005. 152 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This book is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's a book about everything. That is to say, this book is for designers and thinkers, engineers and scientists, entrepreneurs and financiers, and anyone else who might care to understand why things were once as they were, why things are as they are, and what things seem to be becoming. The Contents are: To Whom It Ought to Concern; Tomorrow Composts Today; Old Wine in New Bottles; The Personal Is Historical; Metahistory; A Synchronic Society; The Rubbish Makers; The Stark Necessity of Glamor; An End-User Drinks Gizmo Wine; Meet the Spime; Arphids; An Internet of Things; The Model Is the Message; Fabbing; Spime Economics; The Designer's Questions; Tomorrow's Tomorrow; Ublopia or Otivion; Endtroduction; and Designer's Notes.. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by Lorraine Wild;. 12mo. Book.