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Ross Dawson Intro Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships

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N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Book: The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder

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The Amazon site it worth it for the reviews. See also: the review  by John McLaughlin, which begins:

"In a recent review for the online journal Kairos, I referred to Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines as a brilliant book "with a hole in the middle." That hole was the lack of any extended discussion of the concept of spirituality, in the context of nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and photon-based computing, Kurzweil's actual subjects. What could "spirituality" mean in such a context?"

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Slaves of the Machine : The Quickening of Computer Technologyby Gregory J. E. Rawlins

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Mark Stefik's book
Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths and Metaphors (The MIT Press,
1996)

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Life on the Screen : Identity in the Age of the Internetby Sherry Turkle


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The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internetby Margaret Wertheim

Excellent review on Amazon, which begins:

Fascinating but breathless look at our conception of space,,September 30, 1999 Reviewer: Michael Joyce (mike@joyce.net) from Melbourne, Australia

The ground that this book is trying to cover is certainly expansive, and it's no wonder that some of the topic areas get short shrift. The initial chapters on our conceptions of space are fantastic: I was aware of how our conceptions have changed from absolute space to relativistic and beyond, but Wertheim did an excellent job of demonstrating how much of this change was conceptual rather than purely a change of scientific theory. More importantly, she shows how these changes affect our world-view and spiritual beliefs, and how these affect science and art in turn. For example, she argues that the flat & "unreal" nature of early religious paintings is a reflection of the idea of heaven being outside of normal space. Thus the adoption of three-dimension perspective drawing techniques signaled a shift towards the dominance of physical space. For anyone seeking good examples of changes in scientific paradigms, this book is an excellent place to start....