The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes

The Naked Truth About Internet Culture

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By Dinty W. Moore

On Sale
Jan 9, 1995
Page Count
299 pages
Publisher
Algonquin Books
ISBN-13
9781565128613

A skeptic by nature, a writer and teacher more at home with ballpoint pens than computer programs, Dinty W. Moore wanted to find out for himself if the much-touted Internet and the electronic culture it has spawned is really going to be the Next Big Thing, or whether it’s the emperor’s new clothes. This is not a how-to guide, a giddy net-head’s online magical mystery tour, or a binaries-in-the-sky futurist treatise. Instead, this book tells it like it is about the Internet. Anyone who’s asked, Who’s there? What am I missing? and What is it all about? will find Moore’s good-natured skepticism a welcome break from the explosion of wide-eyed techno-hype raging all around us. “Moore is far and away the best pure writer of the ‘Wired School.’ He’s like the Stage Manager poking his head in around the set of ‘Our Town.’ Funny that it took the arrival of this commonsensical outsider to finally put a real human face on the digital world.”–San Jose Mercury-News.

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Dinty W. Moore

About the Author

Dinty W. Moore has worked as a documentary filmmaker, professional modern dancer, wire-service journalist, and college creative writing professor. He has published fiction and poetry in numerous national literary magazines and is the author of another book of nonfiction, The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth About Internet Culture. He lives with his wife and daughter in State College, Pennsylvania.

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