Format:
ix, 180 p
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ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2002 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
ISBN:
058542635X
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9780585426358
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Content:
3 The Time of the Book, the Clock and MoneyAfter 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; Speed is An Addictive Drug; Speed Leads to Simplification; Speed Creates Assembly Line Effects.
Content:
8 The Pleasures of Slow TimeSources; 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.
Content:
A study of the universal dilemma of the scarcity of time
Content:
Contemporary Culture Runs at Full Speed Without Moving an InchStacking 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; 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?
Content:
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; 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; New Tensions Supplement the Old Ones.
Content:
Speed Leads to a Loss of PrecisionSpeed 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; Time Goes Towards Zero; 6 Stacking; The Moment Precludes Development; Filters Against Fragmentation do not Remove Fragmentation; Pieces Replace Totalities.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index
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Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2002
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0745317758
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745317755
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ISBN 074531774X
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ISBN 9780745317748
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ISBN 1783716231
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ISBN 9781783716234
Additional Edition:
ISBN 074531774X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745317748
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ISBN 0745317758
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ISBN 178371624X
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Eriksen, Thomas Hylland Tyranny of the moment London ; Sterling, Va : Pluto Press, 2001
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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Philosophy
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Sociology
Keywords:
Informationsgesellschaft
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Beschleunigung
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Langsamkeit
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Informationsgesellschaft
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Zeitmangel
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Zeitdruck
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books
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Electronic books.
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Author information:
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland 1962-
