Digital Is Destroying Everything (eBook)

What the Tech Giants Won't Tell You about How Robots, Big Data, and Algorithms Are Radically Remaking Your Future

Andrew V. Edwards (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
246 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-4652-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Digital surrounds us for better or for worse, but it has changed our lives forever. This book takes a look at how these changes have undermined areas of our lives—both good and bad. Andrew Edwards shows us how this has happened and how to be more thoughtful about the effects of the technology that surrounds us and continues to proliferate.

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Every year, perhaps even every week, there is some new gadget, device, service, or other digital offering intended to make our lives easier, better, more fun, or more instantaneous--making it that much harder to question how anything digital can be bad for us. Digital has created some wonderful things and we can hardly imagine life without them. But digitalthe most relentless social and economic juggernaut humanity has unleashed in centuriesis also destroying much we had taken for granted. And what is your place in this brave new world?In Digital Is Destroying Everything, futurist and digital marketing consultant Andrew Edwards tours the ';blasted heath' digital is leaving behind and takes a fearless look at the troubled landscape that may lie ahead. The book is not, despite its title, a dystopian rant against all things digital and technological. Instead, expect to find a lively investigation into the ways digital has opened us to new and sometimes quite wonderful experiences, driven down costs for consumers, and given information a chance to be free. But the book also takes a clear-eyed look at many of the good (and sometimes bad) thingsbusinesses and behaviorsdigital has destroyed, and how the world may be diminished, compromised, and altered forever in its wake. This tour of the effects of digital technologies on our lives is sure to raise questions, touch a nerve, and enlighten even the most dedicated digital enthusiasts.

Autor

Andrew V. Edwards is a digital marketing executive with twenty years of experience serving large organizations, and has been an operating executive and digital marketing consultant since the 1980s. Currently he is a Partner at Efectyv Digital, a strategic consulting firm. In the 1990s he pioneered web development and was involved in early tests of interactive television. Since 2002, Edwards has been consulting with Fortune 500 companies about digital analytics. In 2004 he co-founded the Digital Analytics Association. A recognized thought-leader in the industry, Edwards writes regularly for ClickZ, the world's most complete information source about digital marketing; and has spoken at events like eMetrics, the OMMA Mobile Conference, The DMA Conference, The DAA Symposium and at ClickZ Live. His blog can be found at Tomorrow's Ghost - By Andrew Edwards

Inhalt

Foreword by Rand SchulmanA Note on the Use of “Digital” in This Book1: Digital is Destroying Everything2: Crazy Train: Digital is Destroying the Music Industry3: The Bezos Bauble: Digital is Destroying the Newsprint Industry4: The Business Case: When Digital Destroys Digital5: Undigital, Unemployed: Digital is Destroying the Job Market6: The Lonely Screen: Digital is Destroying Human Interaction7: Campus-Killing: Digital is Destroying Education8: The Downtown Next Time: Digital is Destroying Urban Life in America9: Oversharing and Undercounting: Digital is Destroying Rational Discourse and the Democratic Process10: Books, Bath and Beyond: Digital is Destroying Retail11: Digital Has Destroyed Authoritarian Rule (or Has It)?12: Obsessive Compulsive: Digital is Destroying our Will to Create Anything Not Digital13: Digital is Destroying Financial Services14: Invaders From Earth: Digital is Destroying the Professions (and more)15: Lesser Pursuits Destroyed by Digital16: It's Worse Than You Thought: Digital is Destroying Privacy17: Maybe It's All Bullshit18: Don't Read This First

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Technology and society
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-4652-9 / 1442246529
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4652-2 / 9781442246522