The soft edge: a natural history and future of the information revolution / Paul Levinson.

The first digital medium
The printed authorship of the modern world
The age of photography and the ageless image
Telegraphy
Telephone
Electricity
Radio
Survival of the media fit
Remedial media
Word processing and its masters
The online author as publisher and bookstore
Hypertext and author/reader inversions
The open Web and its enemies
Twentieth-Century screens
Paper futures
Electronic watermarks
Artificial intelligence in real life
You can't touch that in cyberspace.