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The Blind Giant-Being Human in a Digital World

✍ Scribed by Harkaway, Nick

Book ID
107886953
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
298 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780345803726

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✦ Synopsis

Nick Harkaway, author of Angelmaker , presents a rousing and energizing look at how we can meaningfully and constructively engage with technology--creating an essential handbook for anyone trying to be human in a digital age.

Some say our devices will lead us to ruin: isolating us from our neighbors, warping communication, delivering an unregulated flood of information that will destroy our humanity. Some say they will be our salvation: enabling global communication and social engagement, putting all the world's facts at our fingertips, and erasing the barriers that divide us, bringing out the best qualities of humanity. In The Blind Giant , novelist and blogger Nick Harkaway takes us on a lucid, insightful and personal tour of how we live our lives in our technology-obsessed culture. A self-described "missing link" between the pre-Internet generation and the "digital natives" who have grown up with technology, Nick is an enthusiastic guide to digital...

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