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Ambient Findability. Peter Morville. (2005). O’Reilly Media. 188 pp. $29.95 (soft cover). ISBN: 0-596-00765-5.

Ambient Findability. Peter Morville. (2005). O’Reilly Media. 188 pp. $29.95 (soft cover). ISBN:... AAH GRAPHICS, INC. / 540-933-6210 / FAX 540-933-6523 / 10-17-2006 / 16:14 Book Reviews Linda Lohr, Editor Ambient Findability. Peter Morville. (2005). O’Reilly Media. 188 pp. $29.95 (soft cover). ISBN: 0-596-00765-5. Reviewed by James E. Gall Technologists as a group can be stereotyped as people who are obsessed with the future. The past is the concern of archaeologists, historians, and archi- vists; the present is just a beta test for tomorrow. As such, the most memorable dates to the technologist are the ones we anticipate: George Orwell’s 1984, the millennium bug of Y2K, and Arthur C. Clarke’s and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. Recently, however, the technology community has taken time to recognize some important milestones that focus on where it has been as opposed to where it is going. In 1981, the first IBM personal computer was released (Wal- ton, 2006). In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee first proposed what would become the World Wide Web (1999). The Mosaic® browser was made available in 1994 (Ward, 2006). Purists will note that personal computers predated the IBM PC, working hypertext systems existed before the Web, and nonbrowser use of Internet resources has a much longer history. Nonetheless, the public at large has been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Educational Technology Research and Development Springer Journals

Ambient Findability. Peter Morville. (2005). O’Reilly Media. 188 pp. $29.95 (soft cover). ISBN: 0-596-00765-5.

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2006 by Association for Educational Communications and Technology
Subject
Education; Educational Technology; Learning and Instruction
ISSN
1042-1629
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1556-6501
DOI
10.1007/s11423-006-0639-1
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AAH GRAPHICS, INC. / 540-933-6210 / FAX 540-933-6523 / 10-17-2006 / 16:14 Book Reviews Linda Lohr, Editor Ambient Findability. Peter Morville. (2005). O’Reilly Media. 188 pp. $29.95 (soft cover). ISBN: 0-596-00765-5. Reviewed by James E. Gall Technologists as a group can be stereotyped as people who are obsessed with the future. The past is the concern of archaeologists, historians, and archi- vists; the present is just a beta test for tomorrow. As such, the most memorable dates to the technologist are the ones we anticipate: George Orwell’s 1984, the millennium bug of Y2K, and Arthur C. Clarke’s and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. Recently, however, the technology community has taken time to recognize some important milestones that focus on where it has been as opposed to where it is going. In 1981, the first IBM personal computer was released (Wal- ton, 2006). In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee first proposed what would become the World Wide Web (1999). The Mosaic® browser was made available in 1994 (Ward, 2006). Purists will note that personal computers predated the IBM PC, working hypertext systems existed before the Web, and nonbrowser use of Internet resources has a much longer history. Nonetheless, the public at large has been

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