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“The essays amassed during this booklet are gleaming, innovative items of journalism that simply take place to be approximately know-how. humans steeped on the earth of AJAX or vastly Mulitplayer on-line video games will discover a lot to worth right here, yet so will readers easily looking for stable writing.”
—James Fallows, nationwide Correspondent for Atlantic Monthly
 
 
“The human event is being formed by way of our symbiotic dating to expertise. What makes this assortment superb is that it’s no longer concerning the know-how, in keeping with se, yet it’s approximately this altering human adventure. i'm going to look ahead to it each year.”
—Po Bronson, writer of What should still I Do With My Life?
 
 
The better of expertise Writing 2006 brings jointly essentially the most very important, well timed, and simply simple readable writing within the fast paced, high-stakes box of know-how.  The first annual assortment to focus on this bright and flexible quarter, The better of expertise Writing 2006 positive factors leading edge paintings from an surprisingly assorted array of writers: best-selling authors, famous teachers, and indie newshounds and bloggers.  The fruits of an open, online nominating strategy, this assortment covers themes starting from jetpacks, to the ethics of genetically cloned pets, to the which means of lifestyles within the info age. by means of turns epic and intimate, critical and playful, The better of know-how Writing 2006 captures the power, significance, and complexity of expertise today. Koerner
 
Featuring contributions from: 
David A. Bell
David Bernstein
Mike Daisey
Joshua Davis
Jay Dixit
Daniel Engber
Dan Ferber
Steven Johnson
Steven Levy
Farhad Manjoo
Lisa Margonelli
David McNeill
Justin Mullins
Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah
Adam L. Penenberg
Daniel H. Pink
Evan Ratliff
Alex Ross
Jim Rossignol
Jesse Sunenblick
Edward Tenner
Clive Thompson
Joseph Turow
Richard Waters  
 
Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor for Wired, a columnist for either New York Times and Slate, and a fellow on the New the USA starting place. His first publication can be released through Henry Holt & corporation in 2008.
 

digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the college of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing workplace of the college of Michigan Library devoted to publishing cutting edge and available paintings exploring new media and their impression on society, tradition, and scholarly communique. stopover at the web site at www.digitalculture.org.

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