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The big disconnect : the story of technology and loneliness / Giles Slade.

By: Slade, Giles.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 306 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781616145958 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1616145951 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Technology -- Psychological aspects | Household electronics -- Social aspects | Human-machine systemsDDC classification: 303.48/3
Contents:
Immortality and Free Will.-- Breadcrumbs. Incunabula ; Self-serve ; Selling robots ; Closed cars ; Radio's "free" content ; Screens ; Stars. -- Wired for Sound. Music is technology ; Distance grooming ; Palliative music ; Accessibility in American music ; Factory whistle, factory noise ; Stars, music, and personality ; Canned music ; Solitary (acousmatic) listening. -- Trusting Machines. Trust in traditional societies ; Modern trust ; Modern alternatives to trust: professionalization ; Modern alternatives to trust: standardization ; Modern alternatives to trust: reliable machines ; National crisis of trust ; The arts and crafts of machines ; World without Oxytocin -- Machines as Friends.
Summary: Tablets, smart phones, and social networks all promise better opportunities to connect and stay connected. Yet they disguise our growing inability to communicate with and trust others. The author looks at an America where intimacy with machines is increasingly replacing mutual human intimacy.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 303.483 Sl122 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003136439

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Immortality and Free Will.-- Breadcrumbs. Incunabula ; Self-serve ; Selling robots ; Closed cars ; Radio's "free" content ; Screens ; Stars. -- Wired for Sound. Music is technology ; Distance grooming ; Palliative music ; Accessibility in American music ; Factory whistle, factory noise ; Stars, music, and personality ; Canned music ; Solitary (acousmatic) listening. -- Trusting Machines. Trust in traditional societies ; Modern trust ; Modern alternatives to trust: professionalization ; Modern alternatives to trust: standardization ; Modern alternatives to trust: reliable machines ; National crisis of trust ; The arts and crafts of machines ; World without Oxytocin -- Machines as Friends.

Tablets, smart phones, and social networks all promise better opportunities to connect and stay connected. Yet they disguise our growing inability to communicate with and trust others. The author looks at an America where intimacy with machines is increasingly replacing mutual human intimacy.

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