Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

by Douglas Rushkoff

2021-01-05 19:56:38

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 compresse... Read more
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. Less

Book Details

File size7.96 X 5.3 X 0.72 in
Print pages304
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date February 25, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781591844761
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 Digita...

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