SILICON

SNAKE OIL

SECOND THOUGHTS ON THE

INFORMATION HIGHWAY

CLIFFORD STOLL

Author of THE CUCKOO'S EGG

克里夫．斯多繼《捍衛網路》之後，針對網際網路再次敲響另一暮鼓晨鐘。除了與抗蘇俄格別烏駭客網路鬥法，斯多亦針對網際網路提出其獨到見解。的確，隨著科技日益發達，網路看似提供許多服務，然而真正「有所助益」的資訊卻難以取得抑或存取門檻極高。在斯多的想法中，「上網」是否真如矽谷科技人所言如此有效？

日常生活中僅少數事務需要電腦協助，舉凡烹飪、駕駛、參訪、協商、飲食、健行、舞蹈、言談甚至是八卦，這些電腦全都派不上用場。人們根本無需借助電腦以吟詩作對、祈禱助念。斯多進而宣稱：「電腦這款碗糕，根本無法提供大家一个豐富抑是更較好的生活」。

In Silicon Snake Oil, Clifford Stoll, the best-selling author of The Cuckoo's Egg and one of the pioneers of the Internet, turns his attention to the much-heralded information highway, revealing that it is not all it's cracked up to be. Yes, the Internet provides access to plenty of services, but useful information is virtually impossible to find and difficult to access. Is being on-line truly useful? "Few aspects of daily life require computers...They're irrelevant to cooking, driving, visiting, negotiating, eating, hiking, dancing, speaking, and gossiping. You don't need a computer to...recite a poem or say a prayer." Computers can't, Stoll claims, provide a richer or better life.

A cautionary tale about today's media darling, Silicon Snake Oil has sparked intense debate across the country about the merits--and foibles--of what's been touted as the entranceway to our future.

■克里夫．斯多／Clifford Stoll

Clifford Stoll, an MSNBC commentator, a lecturer, and a Berkeley astronomer, is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Cuckoo's Egg, Silicon Snake Oil, and High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian. He lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

作者：克里夫．斯多／Clifford Stoll

版本：First Edition

規格：平裝／Paperback，13.4 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm，256頁

出版商：Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

出版日期：1996年03月01日

語言：英文

ISBN-10：0-385-41994-5

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Condition: Good. Pre-owned book which has been read but is in good condition. All pages are intact, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages as well. With dust jacket.

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