TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Brett T.
TI  - Appletopia: media technology and the religious imagination of Steve Jobs 
SN  - 9781602588219 (hbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HM831 .R6293 2013
U1  - 302.23 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Waco, Texas
PB  - Baylor University Press
KW  - Jobs, Steve,
KW  - Apple Computer, Inc
KW  - fast
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Influence
KW  - Social change
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-142) and index; Acknowledgments -- Introduction: media technology and cultural change -- Macintosh myths -- Allegories for the information age -- iPod devotion -- Acoustic ecstasy and altered states -- iPhone worship -- "Touching is believing" -- Technology and religion -- Where the physical and metaphysical meet -- Conclusion: the paradox of technological belief -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Long before others understood the potential of the personal computer, Jobs saw its true power. But it was his visionary use of media to explain technology to a hungry culture that revealed his singular genius. Robinson reconstructs Jobs' imagination for digital innovation in transcendent terms. From Zen Buddhism and Catholicism to dystopian and futurist thought, religion defined and branded Jobs' design methodology
ER  -