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A leading scholar of media archaeology, MarkusKrajewski explores the history of globalization by examining severallarge-scale projects that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared agrand yet unachievable goal: bringing order to the world. He shows how media,technological structures, and naked human ambition paved the way forglobal-scale ventures that created the first ""world wide web.""

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World Projects carves out a much needed space for human involvement in networked systems and, by doing so, comments on our own struggles for agency within our highly globalized networks today. -Los Angeles Review of Books Always informative and has true worth for researchers and media archeologists. -Neural This is a fascinating-and very entertaining-study. It weaves a tapestry of early technological globalization made up of projects, pipe dreams, and propaganda. There is on the part of the author a noticeable affection for these world infatuations, but there is also the necessary amount of gentle mockery when they become too unworldly. -Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia

<i>World Projects</i> carves out a much needed space for human involvement in networked systems and, by doing so, comments on our own struggles for agency within our highly globalized networks today. --<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i></p> Always informative and has true worth for researchers and media archeologists. --<i>Neural</i></p>

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Markus Krajewski is professor of media history and theory at the University of Basel, Switzerland.He is the author of Paper Machines: About Cards and Catalogs, 1548 1929. Charles Marcrum II is a translator of nonfiction and literary works. He earned an AM degree in Germanic languages and literatures from Harvard University.

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