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 |
Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
SUBJECT |
Automation gnd |
Subject |
Automation -- Social aspects
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Electronic data processing -- Social aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Automation -- Social aspects
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Electronic data processing -- Social aspects
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Internet -- Social aspects
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Datenverarbeitung
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Internet
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Technologie
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Soziologie
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2020739022 |
ISBN |
9781442246522 |
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1442246529 |
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