The Age of Missing Information - Softcover

McKibben, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452269806 ISBN 13: 9780452269804

Publisher: Penguin, 1993

Synopsis

The author of The End of Nature asks an intriguing question: Which provides more information, 103 cable channels showering us with beguiling factoids--or a weekend in the woods? McKibben's work will forever alter our view of TV and the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes often for Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, a global-warming awareness campaign that in October 2009 coordinated what CNN called "the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history." He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.

Synopsis:

After watching more than 1,700 hours of television--the one day output of the Fairfax, Virginia, cable system--and spending a weekend in the woods, the author argues that television separates us from more significant sources of knowledge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0452269806
• ISBN 13: 9780452269804
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272