The Best Technology Writing 2010 - Couverture souple

Dibbell, Julian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300165587 ISBN 13 : 9780300165586

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When The Best Technology Series was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Today, they not only make headlines: they define our twenty-first-century lives. In his introduction to The Best Technology Writing 2010, Julian Dibbell addresses the collective fascination with all things digital: More than other technology, the digital is us. Yet for that reason, the digital is also something more, a lightening rod for our feelings about technology in general. This deep fascination reverberates throughout this collection: Sam Andersons giddy but troubled defence of online distractions; David Carrs full-throated elegy to the dying world of predigital publishing; Steven Johnsons warm appreciation of Twitters bite-sized contributions to collective human intelligence; Vanessa Grigoriadiss probing assessments of Facebooks growing role in our personal lives; Evan Ratliffs fascinating monthlong quest to disappear without a digital trace - each reflects our intimate and complicated relationship to digital media. Yet, as Dibbell notes, the essays collected here also remind us that some of the most disruptive technologies come from beyond the digital world. Whether it is Jill Lepore writing on the politics of breastfeeding gadgetry, Steve Silberman investigating the placebo effect in pharmaceutical testing, Burkhard Bilger tracking efforts to build a better cook stove for the developing world, Javier Mariass writerly cure for fear of flying, or Tad Friends profile of electric-car developer Elon Musks efforts to head off environmental catastrophe, we are made to marvel here, too, at how many aspects of human experience have not been transformed or remain unchanged by digital technology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julian Dibbell is a contributing editor at Wired magazine and the author of the books Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot and My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300165587
• ISBN 13: 9780300165586
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne