Aden Evens is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, USA.

In pointing a finger at the digital, Aden Evens is neither skeptical nor enthusiastic, but offers a careful tracking of the logic described in his title. Careful in the meticulous and informed argument, written in lucid and downright enjoyable prose; but also careful in how far to lament or grieve future outcomes, and here Evens is reasoned and balanced in weighing the potentials of the digital; and finally, care in assessing the burden or weight of the digital on us - how much care we need to take. In this, Evens pulls off the feat of arguing the digital is defined by its abstraction and showing this abstraction in the most pragmatic and everyday ways possible. We feel the digital’s weight in all we do today, and Evens' book is a wise and necessary guide.

• Introduction 1. From Bits to the Object 2. From Objects to the Interface 3. On the Interface - Input - Mediation - Output 4. From the Interface to the Web5. Abstraction and Its Consequences BibliographyIndex

Aden Evens is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, USA.

In pointing a finger at the digital, Aden Evens is neither skeptical nor enthusiastic, but offers a careful tracking of the logic described in his title. Careful in the meticulous and informed argument, written in lucid and downright enjoyable prose; but also careful in how far to lament or grieve future outcomes, and here Evens is reasoned and balanced in weighing the potentials of the digital; and finally, care in assessing the burden or weight of the digital on us - how much care we need to take. In this, Evens pulls off the feat of arguing the digital is defined by its abstraction and showing this abstraction in the most pragmatic and everyday ways possible. We feel the digital’s weight in all we do today, and Evens' book is a wise and necessary guide.

• Introduction 1. From Bits to the Object 2. From Objects to the Interface 3. On the Interface - Input - Mediation - Output 4. From the Interface to the Web5. Abstraction and Its Consequences BibliographyIndex

Aden Evens is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, USA.

In pointing a finger at the digital, Aden Evens is neither skeptical nor enthusiastic, but offers a careful tracking of the logic described in his title. Careful in the meticulous and informed argument, written in lucid and downright enjoyable prose; but also careful in how far to lament or grieve future outcomes, and here Evens is reasoned and balanced in weighing the potentials of the digital; and finally, care in assessing the burden or weight of the digital on us - how much care we need to take. In this, Evens pulls off the feat of arguing the digital is defined by its abstraction and showing this abstraction in the most pragmatic and everyday ways possible. We feel the digital’s weight in all we do today, and Evens' book is a wise and necessary guide.

• Introduction 1. From Bits to the Object 2. From Objects to the Interface 3. On the Interface - Input - Mediation - Output 4. From the Interface to the Web5. Abstraction and Its Consequences BibliographyIndex