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The Best Technology Writing, 2010 2010
Julian Dibbell
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Description for The Best Technology Writing, 2010 2010
Paperback. Addresses the collective fascination with digital technologies. This title collects the essays that remind us that some of the most disruptive technologies come from beyond the digital world. Editor(s): Dibbell, Julian. Series: Best Technology Writing. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: PDR; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When "The Best Technology Series" was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Today, they not only make headlines: they define our twenty-first-century lives. In his introduction to "The Best Technology Writing 2010", Julian Dibbell addresses the collective fascination with all things digital: 'More than other technology, the digital is us. Yet for that reason, the digital is also something more, a lightening rod for our feelings about technology in general'. This deep fascination reverberates throughout this collection: Sam Anderson's giddy but troubled defence of online distractions; David Carr's full-throated elegy to the dying ... Read more
The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When "The Best Technology Series" was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Today, they not only make headlines: they define our twenty-first-century lives. In his introduction to "The Best Technology Writing 2010", Julian Dibbell addresses the collective fascination with all things digital: 'More than other technology, the digital is us. Yet for that reason, the digital is also something more, a lightening rod for our feelings about technology in general'. This deep fascination reverberates throughout this collection: Sam Anderson's giddy but troubled defence of online distractions; David Carr's full-throated elegy to the dying ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Series
Best Technology Writing
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300165586
SKU
V9780300165586
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About Julian Dibbell
Julian Dibbell is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine and the author of the books Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot and My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World.
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