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Bezig met laden... The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World (2015)door Laurence Scott
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. stopped on page 32; may be too esoteric for me You are no doubt reading this on a screen, most likely some sort of tablet or phone, but it could be on a computer. This constant interaction with the 1’s and 0’s of the digital world is starting to have an effect on our own lives, as we are drawn into a world of constant connection, information at your fingertips and 24 hour communication. Scott calls this new persona, the four dimensional human, and in this book considers the ways that this influx of digital consciousness will affect us. Some of his subjects include the private and public faces that we show online, how the digital sphere is affecting us and our thought processes and the perils on our sanity with a constant stream of news. It was an interesting book in lots of ways, almost everything we do these days has some sort of interaction with a computer or screen, and Scoot has made a good attempt to try and see what sort of human being we will become with the constant digital feeds in our lives. The first part of the book dragged a little, but thankfully picked up in the last half where he gave a number of examples on social media and his own experiences on it as well as illustrations from the film and fiction worlds. Overall good, and it would be a subject worth re-visiting again in five years or so with my children’s generation who have only know this world. This book is chock full of touch stones in my mind that resonate. Beginning with the internet and the changes it is making in our minds, bodies and world. Comparing these changes to earlier changes with recognizable reference points in books and film. Frightening visions of things to come and the warning portents of dying bees, calving ice cliffs of glaciers, dying elephants and expanding deserts. Very readable, instructive with many familiar signposts in my own life. Ho messo molte etichette (tag) a questo libro. Non ha un solo scaffale mentale, visto che parla di "dimensione". Una parola questa che va diritto al cuore del problema: l'essere. Se non stabiliamo prima il nostro essere umani, non credo si possa trovare un luogo dove questo medesimo essere sta. Insomma, a farla breve e a dirla facile, tra le antiche classiche domande "chi cosa quando dove perché" bisognerebbe risolvere la prima: chi. Chi siamo? Poi "cosa" è tutto il resto. Il libro cerca di rispondere al "dove" e forse anche al "come", ma non complichiamo le cose. Domanda: dove si colloca l'uomo con l'avvento della realtà digitale? Se fino ad ora siamo vissuti in una realtà, secondo alcuni, a tre dimensioni, altezza, lunghezza, profondità, con il "digitale" dove ci collochiamo? Mentre scrivo su questo tablet, che tipo di esperienza sto vivendo? Quando qualcuno mi leggerà, in che modo lo farà e come reagirà a quello che ho scritto e pensato? Mi leggerà in quale dimensione? Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads ...? Mi risponderà scrivendo alla tastiera, su carta, al suo cellulare? Vorrà modificare il suo pensiero, condividendo con altri, rivedendo, correggendo, modulando il suo pensiero? Insomma, che tipo di pensiero sarà quello che esprime in questa nuova e diversa dimensione che non è mai la stessa? Queste sono le domande che scaturiscono da questo libro. Ma la domanda iniziale resta inevasa: chi è che scrive, pensa e comunica? .... Sospendo e riprendo dopo ... geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the three-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information and global connection. Our portals to this new world have been wedged open, and the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. But what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? How do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style and tilt of our consciousness? What new sensitivities and sensibilities are emerging with our exposure to the delights, sorrows and anxieties of a networked world? And how do we live in public, with these recoded private lives? Tackling ideas of time, space, friendship, commerce, pursuit and escape, and moving from Hamlet to the ghosts of social media, from Seinfeld to the fall of Gaddafi, from Facebook politics to Oedipus, The Four-Dimensional Human is a highly original and pioneering portrait of life in a digital landscape. -- Provided by publisher.
"Hailed as a 'New Generation Thinker" by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC, the author, blending tech-philosophy with a vast array of insights, shows how we are entering into a four-dimensional world, filled with ceaseless communication, instant information and global connection, that is dramatically changing us,"--NoveList. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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