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Author Edwards, Andrew V., 1956-

Title Digital is destroying everything : what the tech giants won't tell you about how robots, big data, and algorithms are radically remaking your future / Andrew V. Edwards
Published Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages)
Contents Digital is destroying everything -- Crazy train : digital is destroying the music industry -- The Bezos bauble : digital is destroying the newspaper industry -- The business case, or, when digital destroys digital -- Undigital, unemployed : digital is destroying the job market -- The lonely screen : digital is destroying human interaction -- A golden ring, just out of reach: digital is destroying education -- The downtown next time : digital is destroying urban life in America -- Oversharing and undercounting : digital is destroying rational discourse and the democratic process -- Books, bath, and beyond : digital is destroying retail -- B2B and the perils of Freemium : digital is destroying the business-to-business market for digital -- Digital has destroyed authoritarian rule (or has it)? -- Obsessive compulsive : digital is destroying our will to create anything not digital -- Wall Street as vaudeville : digital is destroying financial services -- Invaders from Earth : digital is destroying the professions (and more) -- From Rubylith to selfies : lesser pursuits destroyed by digital -- It's worse than you thought : digital is destroying privacy -- Maybe it's all bullshit -- Don't read this first : surviving and prospering in a digital future
Summary Digital surrounds us for better or for worse, but it has changed our lives forever. This book takes a look at how these changes have undermined areas of our lives-both good and bad. Andrew Edwards shows us how this has happened and how to be more thoughtful about the effects of the technology that surrounds us and continues to proliferate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Automation gnd
Subject Automation -- Social aspects
Technology -- Social aspects.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Electronic data processing -- Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Automation -- Social aspects
Electronic data processing -- Social aspects
Internet -- Social aspects
Technology -- Social aspects
Datenverarbeitung
Internet
Technologie
Soziologie
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020739022
ISBN 9781442246522
1442246529