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Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age
The turn of the millennium is characterized by exponential growth in everything related to communication – from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with some of the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age. Who would have expected that apparently time-saving technology results in time being scarcer than ever? And has this seeming...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
August 20th 2001
by Pluto Press
(first published 2001)
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A book everyone who lives in the "information age" should read. Eriksen presents the complications brought on by the technical innovations of the late twentieth century (and onwards), in a time when most people are concerned about how we can further proceed with our innovations. In order to describe our present(which he refers to as the "information age"), Eriksen describes the past, thus providing a good overview on what shaped the twentieth century, and why technology developed as it did.
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Mar 22, 2013
Una
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Recommends it for:
cilvēkiem, kas visu laiku ir aizņemti, bet neko nesanāk izdarīt
Recommended to Una by:
Oskars - kaut kad. Un Ilze Lokmane.
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non-fiction
Interesanta un svarīga grāmata, ko būtu vajadzējis izlasīt pirms vairākiem gadiem. Sarakstīta ap 2000. gadu; tehnoloģijas, par ko viņš raksta, protams, ir mainījušās, bet ietekmes uz cilvēku dzīvi un domāšanu tikai pastiprinājušās.
Dažas atziņas:
1. Mūsdienās problēma nav tikt pie informācijas, bet atlasīt svarīgo.
2. Kad nav noteikta darbalaika, nav arī brīvā laika. Ja vien to apzināti neatdala.
3. Laiks sadrūp sīkumos, iespēja ilgāku laiku nodoties kādam lielam darbam kļūst par luksusu.
4. Tas main...more
Dažas atziņas:
1. Mūsdienās problēma nav tikt pie informācijas, bet atlasīt svarīgo.
2. Kad nav noteikta darbalaika, nav arī brīvā laika. Ja vien to apzināti neatdala.
3. Laiks sadrūp sīkumos, iespēja ilgāku laiku nodoties kādam lielam darbam kļūst par luksusu.
4. Tas main...more
Brilliant book! I can't believe I didn't put this into my list before since its influenced me so much. The paradoxes of our age and how the faster we go, the slower we are...very powerful. Others have written on this, but this is a really precise, revealing piece that is very easy to digest.
A brilliant counter argument by an Anthropologist that dishes all the values that technology companies promise to the mankind. Speed, Efficiency and Productivity. It forces us to consider that not everyone around the world aspires what technology companies want us to believe we need.
Konečně někdo vystihl, jak nic nestíháme a čím víc máme udělátek na ulehčení práce, tím je času méně. zajímavě, vtipně napsané.
Somewhat dated. Although most of the points the author makes are valid, the book bears marks of being written before 2008.
A very good read about the way computers can have us whirling around without achieving anything. This book is a few years old so he doesn't talk about Facebook, Twitter or Wikipedia, that fount of unformation.
hm... vēlāk uzrakstīšu garāku apcerējumu par mani un šo grāmatu (irony intented)
Brilliant book
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pretentious. the author makes a few very good points, but an unnecessarily difficult read.
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