Present shock : when everything happens now / Douglas Rushkoff.
By: Rushkoff, Douglas.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Current, 2013Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.Description: vii, 296 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781591844761 (hardback) :; 1591844762 (hardback) :.Subject(s): Technology -- Social aspects | Technology -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 303.48/3 Summary: In the 1970s futurism was in. The author contends that "presentism" is the new ethos of a society that's always on, in real time, updating live and that we are in danger of squandering our cognitive surplus on trivia.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 303.483 R895 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003621158 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
In the 1970s futurism was in. The author contends that "presentism" is the new ethos of a society that's always on, in real time, updating live and that we are in danger of squandering our cognitive surplus on trivia.
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