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Quite wonderful...a smart warning by a savvy afficionado of cyber-culture to be wary of too much of a good thing. (Orville Schell)David Shenk's brilliant book names the problem, describes it, and - God bless him - offers us help in coping with it (Neil Postman) DATA SMOG begins with the author's own personal awakening from years of computer worship to the unwelcome side-effects from information mania. After confronting his own information anxieties and deflating his mislaid faith in the virtue of technology, he begins to see the entire world in a new light. Where before he viewed computers in the way they wished to be viewed, he now sees a technology industry whose raison d'etre is inducing a manic you're-not-keeping up anxiety; a culture getting hooked on the manic velocity of data and losing interest in slower, more thoughtful deliberation; and a world fragmenting to a perverse degree, losing its common information and drifting toward a less responsible democracy.
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DATA SMOG begins with the author's own personal awakening from years of computer worship to the unwelcome side-effects from information mania. After confronting his own information anxieties and deflating his mislaid faith in the virtue of technology, he begins to see the entire world in a new light. Where before he viewed computers in the way they wished to be viewed, he now sees a technology industry whose raison d'etre is inducing a manic you're-not-keeping up anxiety; a culture getting hooked on the manic velocity of data and losing interest in slower, more thoughtful deliberation; and a world fragmenting to a perverse degree, losing its common information and drifting toward a less responsible democracy.
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Quite wonderful...a smart warning by a savvy afficionado of cyber-culture to be wary of too much of a good thing. (Orville Schell)
David Shenk's brilliant book names the problem, describes it, and - God bless him - offers us help in coping with it (Neil Postman)
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0349109486
- ISBN 13 9780349109480
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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