Data Smog: SURVIVING THE INFORMATION GLUT

Shenk, David W.

ISBN 10: 0349109486 / ISBN 13: 9780349109480

Published by Abacus, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Data Smog: SURVIVING THE INFORMATION GLUT
• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349109486
• ISBN 13: 9780349109480
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

David Shenk works at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Centre at Columbia University in New York. This is his first book.