ISBN:
9780080480701
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (358 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Thieme, Richard Islands in the clickstream
DDC:
005.8
Keywords:
Human-computer interaction
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Computers -- Social aspects
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Electronic books ; local
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Computers ; Social aspects
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Human-computer interaction
;
Electronic books
;
Technischer Fortschritt
;
Psychologie
;
Computer
;
Zivilisation
Abstract:
CNN called Richard Thieme "a member of the cyber avant-garde". Digital Delirium named him "one of the most creative minds of the digital generation". Now Richard Thieme's wisdom on the social and cultural dimensions of technology is available in a single volume. "Islands in the Clickstream" ranges beyond the impact of technology to spirituality, psychological insight, and social commentary. Now that people are used to living in virtual worlds and move easily between online and offline worlds, they want to connect that experience to the deeper issues of our lives, including spiritual issues. Some examples include "Dreams Engineers Have", "The Crazy Lady on the Treadmill", and "Whistleblowers and Team Players". These essays raise serious questions for thoughtful readers. They have attracted favorable commentary from around the world and a fanatic, almost rabid fan base. * This author has become an extremely popular and highly visible talking head. He is a rare "personality" in the otherwise bland world of technology commentators. * The book leverages the loyalty of his audience in the same way Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor" and Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" do. * The book is an easy read intended to provoke thought, discussion and disagreement.
Abstract:
Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- About the Author -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction: This is the Way the Internet Works -- Ferg's Law -- Chapter 2 Computer-Mediated Living: The Digital Filter -- Games Engineers Play -- Dreams Engineers Have -- Fractals, Hammers, and Other Tools -- Not a Book -- Darling -- Sneaking Up On Ourselves -- The Air We Breathe -- Voyagers -- Densities -- Waiting for the Bard Group -- Humanity Morphing -- Necessary Fictions -- Building the Matrix -- History and Myth -- Modules and Metaphors -- Beyond Belief -- The Crazy Lady on the Treadmill -- Chapter 3 Doing Business Digitally -- Failing into Success -- Generating Power -- Digital Civility -- The Pattern of Community -- Beanie Babies and the Source of All Things -- Why the Soft Stuff is Hard -- Professional Communicators -- Straight Talk -- Time for Yoda - and Yodette -- Whistleblowers and Team Players -- Chapter 4 Hacking and the Passion for Knowledge -- Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas -- The Enemy is... WHO? -- A Moment of Clarity -- If Truth Be Told -- Life in Space -- Don Quixote Goes Digital -- Knowledge, Obsession, Daring -- In Defense of Hacking -- Hactivism and Soul Power -- Hacking Chinatown -- Hacker Generations -- Chapter 5 Digital Spirituality -- A Silent Retreat -- A Nightmare in Daylight -- Mutuality, Feedback, and Accountability -- The Illusion of Control -- The Day the Computer Prayed -- Climbing Down the Iceberg -- A Digital Fable -- Digital Religion -- What the Platypus Dreamed -- What Is, Is -- Showing Up -- Millenium's End -- An Owl in Winter: Millenium's End II -- Night Light -- Breaking the Code -- Invitation to a Seance -- Getting Real -- A Dry Run -- Words, Words, Words -- What Works? -- Two Ways of Looking at a Network -- Christmas 2001 - The Base -- Looking for Paradise -- Chapter 6 Mostly True Predictions.
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