Awards

• Winner of 2004 IEEE-USAB Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession 2004
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Overview

"With this book the author of ""City of Bits"" and ""E-topia"" completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. He describes the transformation of wireless technology in the 100 years since Marconi - the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. This transformation has, in turn, changed our relationship with our surroundings and with each other. Thus Mitchell proposes that the ""trial separation"" of bits (the elementary unit of information) and atoms (the elementary unit of matter) is over. With increasing frequency, events in physical space reflect events in cyberspace, and vice versa; digital information can, for example, direct the movement of an aircraft or a robot arm. In this book Mitchell examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities and our uses of space and time. He argues that a world governed less and less by boundaries and more and more by connections requires us to re-imagine and reconstruct our environment and to reconsider the ethical foundations of design, engineering and planning practice."

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The brave new world of Me++ will allow us to rethink urban life from the bottom up. -James Harking, Financial Times Magazine ...Mitchell floats clearly conveyed assertions on a stream of technological and historical detail. -Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Architectural Record * Reviews * Mitchell's book, Me++ is an attempt to fill in the gaps, to understand the effects of all this on our already media-savvy selves when digital access to the web and to each other is now so commonplace as to have become a utility like gas or water. -Financial Times * Reviews * Sweeping, startling... provocative. -Tom Vanderbilt, I.D. Magazine * Reviews * This book is a total gas to read and the very definition of 'thought-provoking.' -Bruce Sterling, Metropolis * Reviews * Me++ is an essential read for anyone trying to make sense of the bewildering advances that are transforming our world. -Richard Mateosian, IEEE Micro * Reviews * Me++ is an exhilarating read, jam-packed with interesting facts, colorful phrases, imagery and sage insights. -Joanne Baker, Nature * Reviews * MIT planning professor William Mitchell peers into the gloom better than almost anyone else. -APA * Reviews * Mitchell's approach is hopeful (rather than hype-ful)... -Jim McClellan, The Guardian * Reviews * The brave new world of Me++ will allow us to rethink urban life from the bottom up. -James Harking, Financial Times Magazine * Reviews *

The brave new world of Me++ will allow us to rethink urban life from the bottom up. -- James Harking, Financial Times Magazine Me++ is an exhilarating read, jam-packed with interesting facts, colorful phrases, imagery and sage insights. -- Joanne Baker, Nature This book is a total gas to read and the very definition of 'thought-provoking'. -- Bruce Sterling, Metropolis MIT planning professor William Mitchell peers into the gloom better than almost anyone else. -- APA Mitchell's approach is hopeful (rather than hype-ful)... -- Jim McClellan, The Guardian Sweeping, startling...provocative. -- Tom Vanderbilt, I.D. Magazine Me++ is an essential read for anyone trying to make sense of the bewildering advances that are transforming our world. -- Richard Mateosian, IEEE Micro ...Mitchell floats clearly conveyed assertions on a stream of technological and historical detail... -- Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Architectural Record An exhilarating, but also sometimes terrifying, account of how humanity is being reshaped by its new machines. This is the best tour guide yet written to the brave new world of the digital present. --Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities Witty, urbane, and informed by a remarkably wide range of reference, Me++ surveys the ways in which digital technologies are transforming our world and ourselves. I cannot think of a better guide to these coming changes than William Mitchell. He is able to see the future without losing sight of the past, and he embodies the technologically savvy yet still deeply humanistic perspective we need to understand and evaluate where our technologies are leading us--and where we should be leading them. --N. Katherine Hayles, Hillis Professor of Literature, English Department and Design/Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles William Mitchell has a rare understanding of the ways in which emerging network culture is changing the social, political, and economic fabric as well as transforming the architecture of cities and the subjects who inhabit them. Savvy, insightful and provocative, Me++ is required reading for anyone baffled by the present and concerned about the future. --Mark C. Taylor, Columbia University and Williams College Mitchell has done it again! This concluding volume of the 'Mitchell trilogy' is at least as disturbingly insightful, as stylistically scintillating, as its predecessors. If you really want to understand how profoundly our world is being transformed by networked communications, read Me++ now. --Professor Sir Peter Hall, Director, Institute of Community Studies, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London

The brave new world of Me++ will allow us to rethink urban life from the bottom up. -- James Harking * Financial Times Magazine * Mitchell's approach is hopeful (rather than hype-ful)... -- Jim McClellan * The Guardian * MIT planning professor William Mitchell peers into the gloom better than almost anyone else. * APA * Me++ is an exhilarating read, jam-packed with interesting facts, colorful phrases, imagery and sage insights. -- Joanne Baker * Nature * Me++ is an essential read for anyone trying to make sense of the bewildering advances that are transforming our world. -- Richard Mateosian * IEEE Micro * This book is a total gas to read and the very definition of 'thought-provoking.' -- Bruce Sterling * Metropolis * Sweeping, startling... provocative. -- Tom Vanderbilt * I.D. Magazine * Mitchell's book, Me++ is an attempt to fill in the gaps, to understand the effects of all this on our already media-savvy selves when digital access to the web and to each other is now so commonplace as to have become a utility like gas or water. * Financial Times * ...Mitchell floats clearly conveyed assertions on a stream of technological and historical detail. -- Andrea Oppenheimer Dean * Architectural Record *

...Mitchell floats clearly conveyed assertions on a stream of technological and historical detail. Andrea Oppenheimer Dean Architectural Record Mitchell's book, Me++ is an attempt to fill in the gaps, to understand the effects of all this on our already media-savvy selves when digital access to the web and to each other is now so commonplace as to have become a utility like gas or water. Financial Times Sweeping, startling... provocative. Tom Vanderbilt I.D. Magazine This book is a total gas to read and the very definition of 'thought-provoking.' Bruce Sterling Metropolis Me++ is an essential read for anyone trying to make sense of the bewildering advances that are transforming our world. Richard Mateosian IEEE Micro Me++ is an exhilarating read, jam-packed with interesting facts, colorful phrases, imagery and sage insights. Joanne Baker Nature MIT planning professor William Mitchell peers into the gloom better than almost anyone else. APA ...Mitchell floats clearly conveyed assertions on a stream of technological and historical detail... Andrea Oppenheimer Dean Architectural Record Mitchell's approach is hopeful (rather than hype-ful)... Jim McClellan The Guardian Sweeping, startling...provocative. Tom Vanderbilt I.D. Magazine The brave new world of Me++ will allow us to rethink urban life from the bottom up. James Harking Financial Times Magazine This book is a total gas to read and the very definition of 'thought-provoking'. Bruce Sterling Metropolis Witty, urbane, and informed by a remarkably wide range of reference, Me++ surveys the ways in which digital technologies are transforming our world and ourselves. I cannot think of a better guide to these coming changes than William Mitchell. He is able to see the future without losing sight of the past, and he embodies the technologically savvy yet still deeply humanistic perspective we need to understand and evaluate where our technologies are leading us--and where we should be leading them. N. Katherine Hayles , Hillis Professor of Literature, English Department and Design/Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles

Author Information

William J. Mitchell was the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr., Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and directed the Smart Cities research group at MIT's Media Lab.

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