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Errata for the book Shaping a Digital World.

List of errata for the first printing:

• references to Brooks, Frederick P., The Design of Design should indicate the book publisher's location as Addison-Wesley in Upper Saddle River, NJ, not Addison-Wesley in Boston.
• page 14: missing word "We will take a closer look at the consequences..."
• page 77: Although computing objects have the technological modality as a foundationmore technical modalities at their foundation, they often have another modality as a destination.
• page 84: "network protocols need to be concise clearly defined and fault-tolerant so that..."
• page 131 - missing entry in bibliography: Dyer, John, From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2011.

List of errata for the second printing:

• The URL http://cs.calvin.edu/p/christian_scholarship in the footnotes on pages 47 and 55 have moved to https://cs.calvin.edu/documents/christian_computing (also in the Bibliography on page 129).

List of errata for the third printing:

• The URL http://cs.calvin.edu/p/christian_scholarship in the footnotes on pages 47 and 55 has moved to https://cs.calvin.edu/documents/christian_computing (also in the Bibliography on page 129).
• The URL for the companion website given on page 125 is migrating to https://cs.calvin.edu/shaping_a_digital_world/.

List of errata for the fourth printing:

• The URL http://cs.calvin.edu/p/christian_scholarship in the footnotes on pages 47 and 55 has moved to https://cs.calvin.edu/documents/christian_computing (also in the Bibliography on page 129).
• The URL for the companion website given on page 125 has migrated to:
  www.ivpress.com/shaping-resources.
• page 41, first line of first full paragraph: mispelled word "reductionsm", should read "reductionism" (with thanks to David Widjaja for reporting this).
• On pages 37,68,83, and 130: references to Brooks, Frederick P., The Mythical Man-Month should indicate the book publisher as Addison-Wesley in Boston, not Wiley in San Francisco (with thanks to Fred Brooks for alerting me to this).
• page 16: Lewis Mumford makes the point that the "the clock is not merely a means..." (with thanks to Paul Griffioen for alerting me to this).