Present Shock when everything happens now by Douglas Rushkoff

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ISBN-13
9781617230103
Topic
Presents
ISBN
9781617230103
Subject Area
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Business & Economics
Publication Name
Present Shock : When Everything Happens Now
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Item Length
8 in
Subject
Social Aspects, Social Aspects / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Corporate & Business History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Douglas Rushkoff
Item Weight
8.7 Oz
Item Width
5.3 in
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1617230103
ISBN-13
9781617230103
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167963260

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Present Shock : When Everything Happens Now
Subject
Social Aspects, Social Aspects / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Corporate & Business History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Business & Economics
Author
Douglas Rushkoff
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
8.7 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"This is a wondrously thought-provoking book. Unlike other social theorists who either mindlessly decry or celebrate the digital age, Rushkof f explores how it has caused a focus on the immediate moment that can be both disorienting and energizing." -Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs   "Rushkoff gives readers a healthy dose of perspective, insight, and critical analysis that's sure to get minds spinning and tongues wagging." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)   "In this refreshing antidote to promises of digital Utopia, Rushkoff articulates his own well-informed second thoughts. We should pay close attention-while we still can." -George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines   "If you read one book next year to help you make sense of the present moment, let it be Present Shock." -Anthony Wing Kosner, Forbes.com   " Present Shock holds up new lenses and offers new narratives about what might be happening to us and why, compelling readers to look at the larger repercussions of today's technologically mediated social practices, from texting to checking in with a location-based service, jet-lag to The Simpsons , in new ways." -Howard Rheingold, author of Net Smart   "A wide-ranging social and cultural critique, Present Shock artfully weaves through many different materials as it makes its point: we are exhilarated, drugged, and consumed by the now. But we need to attend to the future before us and embrace the present in a more constructive way." -Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together   "With brilliant insight Rushkoff once again gets there early, making us confront the new world of 'presentism'-the shif t in our focus from the future to the present, from the horizon-gazing to the experience of here and now. He points to signs of presentism all around us-in how we conduct politics, interact with media, and negotiate relationships." -Marina Gorbis, executive director, Institute for the Future
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
303.483
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., Back in the 1970s, futurism was all the rage. But looking forward is becoming a thing of the past. According to Douglas Rushkoff, presentism is the new ethos of a society that's always on, in real time, updating live. Guided by neither history nor long term goals, we navigate a sea of media that blend the past and future into a mash-up of instantaneous experience. Rushkoff shows how this trend is both disorienting and exhilarating. But we are in danger of squandering this cognitive surplus on trivia. Rushkoff shows how we can instead ground ourselves in the present tense.
LC Classification Number
T14.5.R86 2014

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