Synopses & Reviews
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed.
Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this now” is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.
Douglas Rushkoff weaves together seemingly disparate events and trends into a rich, nuanced portrait of how life in the eternal present has affected our biology, behavior, politics, and culture.
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Invaluable.” The New York Times
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This is a wondrously thought-provoking book.” Walter Isaacson
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A sobering wake-up call to collectively reexamine our relationship with time before were blindsided by an unwelcome future.” Booklist
About the Author
Douglas Rushkoff is a world-renowned media theorist whose twelve books, including Life Inc and Program or Be Programmed, have been translated into thirty languages. He is a commentator on CNN and a contributor to the Guardian, Discover, and NPR. He lives in New York.