ISBN:
074531774X
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0745317758
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9780745317755
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 180 p)
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ill. (some col.)
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22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Uniform Title:
Øyeblikkets tyranni. 〈engl.〉
Parallel Title:
Print version Tyranny of the moment
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Computers and civilization
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Information technology Social aspects
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Time pressure
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Information society
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Time Social aspects
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents ""; ""List of Figures ""; ""Preface ""; ""1. Introduction: Mind the Gap! ""; ""2. Information Culture, Information Cult ""; ""THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BEGAN IN 1991""; ""THE INTERNET IS A TEMPLATE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY""; ""IN INFORMATION SOCIETY, EVEN THE PIGS ARE IT COMPATIBLE""; ""IN INFORMATION SOCIETY, FREEDOM FROM INFORMATION IS A SCARCE RESOURCE""; ""LESS IS MORE""; ""IN INFORMATION SOCIETY,THE GAPS ARE BEING FILLED WITH FAST TIME""; ""NO TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES TURN OUT AS ANTICIPATED""; ""IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, FREEDOM AND VULNERABILITY ARE SYNONYMS""
Description / Table of Contents:
""NEW TENSIONS SUPPLEMENT THE OLD ONES""""3. The Time of the Book, the Clock and Money ""; ""AFTER SPEECH AND VISUAL ART, WRITING MARKED A MAJOR WATERSHED IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY""; ""THE CLOCK WAS INTRODUCED TO REGULATE PRAYER TIMES; WHAT DOES IT REGULATE NOW?""; ""MONEY BELONGS TO THE SAME FAMILY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AS WRITING AND CLOCKS""; ""NOTATION DOES THE SAME KIND OF WORK AS WRITING, NUMBERS,CLOCKS AND MONEY""; ""SOCIETY BECOMES INCREASINGLY ABSTRACT""; ""LINEAR TIME IS NOT PART OF THE PROBLEM""; ""4. Speed ""; ""OUR HISTORY IS THE HISTORY OF ACCELERATION""
Description / Table of Contents:
""SPEED IS AN ADDICTIVE DRUG""""SPEED LEADS TO SIMPLIFICATION""; ""SPEED CREATES ASSEMBLY LINE EFFECTS""; ""SPEED LEADS TO A LOSS OF PRECISION""; ""SPEED DEMANDS SPACE""; ""SPEED IS CONTAGIOUS""; ""GAINS AND LOSSES TEND TO EQUAL EACH OTHER OUT""; ""TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE LEADS TO UNPREDICTED SIDE- EFFECTS""; ""5. Exponential Growth ""; ""EXPONENTIAL GROWTH IS EVEN AND MAY SEEM UNDRAMATIC FOR A LONG TIME""; ""EXPONENTIAL GROWTH CREATES SCARCITY OF SPACE""; ""SIDE-EFFECTS BECOME DOMINANT""; ""THERE IS A GROWING AMOUNT OF EVERYTHING""; ""THE GROWTH RATES IN CYBERSPACE SURPASS EVERYTHING ELSE""
Description / Table of Contents:
""TIME GOES TOWARDS ZERO""""6. Stacking ""; ""THE MOMENT PRECLUDES DEVELOPMENT""; ""FILTERS AGAINST FRAGMENTATION DO NOT REMOVE FRAGMENTATION""; ""PIECES REPLACE TOTALITIES""; ""CONTEMPORARY CULTURE RUNS AT FULL SPEED WITHOUT MOVING AN INCH""; ""STACKING REPLACES INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT""; ""THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS STRIKES WITH A VENGEANCE""; ""INFORMATION LINT DESTROYS CONTINUITY""; ""7. The Lego Brick Syndrome ""; ""AN ACCELERATED PROFESSIONAL LIFE OFFERS FLEXIBILITY AND REMOVES SECURITY""; ""THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN WORK AND LEISURE IS ERASED""
Description / Table of Contents:
""FAMILY LIFE IS BY NATURE SLOW AND FITS THE CURRENT ERA BADLY""""THE CULT OF YOUTH IS CAUSED BY THE TYRANNY OF THE MOMENT""; ""CONSUMPTION IS STACKED,AND COHERENCE DISAPPEARS""; ""DOES THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION ACTUALLY INCREASE EFFICIENCY?""; ""8 The Pleasures of Slow Time ""; ""Sources ""; ""2 INFORMATION CULTURE, INFORMATION CULT""; ""3 THE TIME OF THE BOOK, THE CLOCK AND MONEY""; ""4 SPEED""; ""5 EXPONENTIAL GROWTH""; ""6 STACKING""; ""7 THE LEGO BRICK SYNDROME""; ""8 THE PLEASURES OF SLOW TIME""; ""Index""
Note:
"A different version of this book was published in Norwegian by H. Aschehoug in spring 2001. In preparing the English version, I considered the possibility of trying to erase every visible trace of its Scandinavian origin, replacing all examples and all local flavour with UK or US equivalents ... Instead, I have opted for a compromise, replacing those Scandinavian examples which do not make sense out of context ... but keeping others"--P. ix
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Rev. ed. of: Øyeblikkets tyranni, 2001
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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