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About Jacking In: A Series on Cyberspace Literacy
In the fall of 1992, I was walking past the Mission District's
largest and best-loved bookseller, Modern Times Bookstore. In their
window were several collections of books: the latest in Central
and South American poetry and prose, the latest in critical thinking
on literature and media, and a surprisingly good sampling of books
on cyberspace: ranging from the science fiction of William Gibson,
Rudy Rucker, and Bruce Sterling to postmodern critiques of virtual
reality to popular expositions of the technologies, like Cliff
Stoll's Cuckoo's Egg, Stephen Levy's Hackers, and Howard Rheingold's
Virtual Reality.
Talks and in-store author visits had been arranged for all but the
cyberspace books. With then uncharacteristic verve (heh) I walked
in and offered to co-ordinate such a series. In February, 1993, we
launched Jacking In: A Series on Cyberspace Literacy with an Internet
Crash Course, and followed it up in March with a killer panel
consisting of Mike Godwin (Electronic Frontier Foundation), John
Draper (Cap'n Crunch), Mitch Ratcliffe (then of MacWEEK and
This!Group), and Bruce Sterling (cyberpunk author extraordinaire).
Except for a time-out during the summer of 1994, Jacking In has
presented appropriate-cost events ($3-$5 sliding scale) once or
twice a month ever since.
You can subscribe to the jacked-in list, a one-way list of
announcements relating to this series and selected San Francisco
cyberevents, by sending the message
subscribe jacked-in
to
majordomo@cyberwerks.com
A repository of Jacking In events can be accessed via gopher at
gopher cyberwerks.com
or the World-Wide Web at
http://cyberwerks.com:70/1/modern.times.
Requests for additional information or suggestions for future event
topics can be sent to me. For additional information about Modern
Times Bookstore, write Pam or Michael Rosenthal (pamr@well.com or
michaelr@well.com).
If you're in the area, drop by Modern Times Bookstore at 888 Valencia
Street (at 20th), San Francisco, CA 94110; 415/282.9246.
Eric S. Theise
verve@cyberwerks.com