Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Format: kindle
ASIN: B008EKOL1W
Publish date: March 21st 2013
Publisher: Current
Pages no: 305
Edition language: English
Rushkoff talks several times (including in a meta-discussion about why he's even writing a book in the first place. “How anachronistic!”) about how no-one actually reads books any more — all that really matters is getting the gist, and the quicker the better. But, even though he could instead have w...
(I've just pulled the last paragraph of my blog review - the only thing I'll add is to say that this is absolutely required reading for anyone with any tech device at all in their lives. Let's halt the present shock before it cripples us all.)Although I did find a few flaws in some of Rushkoff’s ar...
With a nod to Alvin Toffler, Rushkoff speaks to our relationship with time, one that has been shaped by both culture and technology. He denotes a marked shift in our focus from futurism to presentism, and while upon first blush this sounds like a vast improvement - evoking the ideas of Eckhart Tolle...
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