Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Rushkoff, Douglas

ISBN 10: 1617230103 / ISBN 13: 9781617230103

Edité par Current, 2014

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l?auteur: Douglas Rushkoff is the author of many bestselling books on media, technology and culture, including Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed and Media Virus. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels Testament and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Generation Like, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society and economics around the world.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Éditeur : Current
Date d'édition : 2014
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good