
Present Shock
When Everything Happens Now
Douglas Rushkoff(Author)
Current (Publisher)
Published on 25. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-61723-010-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
243 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61723-010-3 (9781617230103)
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03/2013
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Douglas Rushkoff