Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
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People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this "now" is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.
Book Information
Main Genre
Specialized Books
Sub Genre
Mathematics & Natural Sciences
Format
Softcover
Pages
304
Price
16.50 €
Posts
3
This book surely was an entertaining one to read and some things there certainly added to my pool of general knowledge or gave me reference books for further reading. But I felt like it was so overloaded with arguments that the point, the message the book should've brought across, didn't really become clear to me.
Description
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this "now" is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.
Book Information
Main Genre
Specialized Books
Sub Genre
Mathematics & Natural Sciences
Format
Softcover
Pages
304
Price
16.50 €
Posts
3
This book surely was an entertaining one to read and some things there certainly added to my pool of general knowledge or gave me reference books for further reading. But I felt like it was so overloaded with arguments that the point, the message the book should've brought across, didn't really become clear to me.