Every year, perhaps even every week, there is some new gadget, device,
service, or other digital offering intended to make our lives easier,
better, more fun, or more instantaneous--making it that much harder to
question how anything digital can be bad for us. Digital has created
some wonderful things and we can hardly imagine life without them. But
digital—the most relentless social and economic juggernaut humanity
has unleashed in centuries—is also destroying much we had taken for
granted. And what is your place in this brave new world? In Digital Is
Destroying Everything, futurist and digital marketing consultant
Andrew Edwards tours the “blasted heath” digital is leaving behind
and takes a fearless look at the troubled landscape that may lie
ahead. The book is not, despite its title, a dystopian rant against
all things digital and technological. Instead, expect to find a lively
investigation into the ways digital has opened us to new and sometimes
quite wonderful experiences, driven down costs for consumers, and
given information a chance to be free. But the book also takes a
clear-eyed look at many of the good (and sometimes bad)
things—businesses and behaviors—digital has destroyed, and how the
world may be diminished, compromised, and altered forever in its wake.
This tour of the effects of digital technologies on our lives is sure
to raise questions, touch a nerve, and enlighten even the most
dedicated digital enthusiasts.
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What the Tech Giants Won't Tell You about How Robots, Big Data, and Algorithms Are Radically Remaking Your Future
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781442246522
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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