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Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club : [electronic resource] pulling the plug on the electronic revolution / edited by Bill Henderson.

Contributor(s): Henderson, Bill, 1941-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wainscott, N.Y. : Pushcart Press, 1997, c1996Edition: 1st Pushcart Press pbk. ed.Description: 235 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0916366200 (pbk.) :; 9780916366209 (pbk.).Subject(s): Computers and civilization | Information technology -- Social aspects | Information societyDDC classification: 820.8/0356 Online resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open Library
Contents:
The lead pencil club / [Bill Henderson] -- Pencils / Gail Lawrence -- I'll take the superhighway's sideroads : testimony / by Michele M. Cardella -- The electronic hive : refuse it / Sven Birkerts -- Adding memory / Andrei Codrescu -- Powerless power : how barbarians defeated technology / Sanja Brizic Ilic -- Why I am not going to buy a computer : testimony / by Wendell Berry -- A little cyber grouch / Russell Baker -- You can't live on the Internet / Clifford Stoll -- Invalids in the garbage of memory / Peter Grenquist -- My last class : the Hmong vs. high tech : testimony / by Leonora Holder -- The media-free family : testimony / by Mary Ann Lieser -- Letter perfect : testimony / by Ron Tanner -- Abolishment of childhood? : testimony / by Mary Clagett Smith -- Asia, Asia! / Eva Schawohl -- Young cyber addicts : testimony / by Amy Wu -- When executives should just say no : testimony / by Madeleine Begun Kane -- The myth of computers in the classroom / David Gelernter -- Booklove : testimony / by Jerome Stern -- Why The Pocahontas Times does not have a fax : testimony / by Russell D. Jessee -- User-friendliness : book vs. disk : testimony / by Stephen Manes -- As it is / Dorianne Laux -- Medical emergency : testimony / by Peter H. Gott -- Scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Toad? / Lance Morrow -- The compulsion to think : testimony / by Alan David Sophrin -- My son saves nanoseconds : testimony / by Arthur Hoppe -- A read-only man in an interactive age : testimony / by George Felton -- The fetish of impermanence / D.T. Max -- Don't fax me in / Carol Ann Messecar -- Cui bono? / Eva T.H. Brann -- Slower was faster : testimony / by Gerald Howard -- Oh, for a yellow tablet : testimony / by Susan Hanson -- From The dead man poems / Marvin Bell -- Faust in the computer age : testimony / by Val Schaffner -- Welcome to cyberbia : an economic primer / M. Kadi -- The information superhighway : mega buys : testimony / by Franklin Saige -- Cybersuicide : quitting the Net : testimony / by J.C. Herz -- Virtual students, digital classroom / Neil Postman -- Rapture and redemption in the virtual world / Mark Slouka -- Afterword / Doris Grumbach.
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"Letters, essays, cartoons, and commentary on how and why to live contraption-free in a computer-crazed world."

The lead pencil club / [Bill Henderson] -- Pencils / Gail Lawrence -- I'll take the superhighway's sideroads : testimony / by Michele M. Cardella -- The electronic hive : refuse it / Sven Birkerts -- Adding memory / Andrei Codrescu -- Powerless power : how barbarians defeated technology / Sanja Brizic Ilic -- Why I am not going to buy a computer : testimony / by Wendell Berry -- A little cyber grouch / Russell Baker -- You can't live on the Internet / Clifford Stoll -- Invalids in the garbage of memory / Peter Grenquist -- My last class : the Hmong vs. high tech : testimony / by Leonora Holder -- The media-free family : testimony / by Mary Ann Lieser -- Letter perfect : testimony / by Ron Tanner -- Abolishment of childhood? : testimony / by Mary Clagett Smith -- Asia, Asia! / Eva Schawohl -- Young cyber addicts : testimony / by Amy Wu -- When executives should just say no : testimony / by Madeleine Begun Kane -- The myth of computers in the classroom / David Gelernter -- Booklove : testimony / by Jerome Stern -- Why The Pocahontas Times does not have a fax : testimony / by Russell D. Jessee -- User-friendliness : book vs. disk : testimony / by Stephen Manes -- As it is / Dorianne Laux -- Medical emergency : testimony / by Peter H. Gott -- Scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Toad? / Lance Morrow -- The compulsion to think : testimony / by Alan David Sophrin -- My son saves nanoseconds : testimony / by Arthur Hoppe -- A read-only man in an interactive age : testimony / by George Felton -- The fetish of impermanence / D.T. Max -- Don't fax me in / Carol Ann Messecar -- Cui bono? / Eva T.H. Brann -- Slower was faster : testimony / by Gerald Howard -- Oh, for a yellow tablet : testimony / by Susan Hanson -- From The dead man poems / Marvin Bell -- Faust in the computer age : testimony / by Val Schaffner -- Welcome to cyberbia : an economic primer / M. Kadi -- The information superhighway : mega buys : testimony / by Franklin Saige -- Cybersuicide : quitting the Net : testimony / by J.C. Herz -- Virtual students, digital classroom / Neil Postman -- Rapture and redemption in the virtual world / Mark Slouka -- Afterword / Doris Grumbach.

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