The Resource Tyranny of the moment : fast and slow time in the information age, Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Tyranny of the moment : fast and slow time in the information age, Thomas Hylland Eriksen
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- Summary
- A study of the universal dilemma of the scarcity of time
- Language
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- eng
- nor
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 180 pages)
- Contents
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- Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction: Mind the Gap!; 2 Information Culture, Information Cult; The Twenty-First Century Began in 1991; The Internet is a Template for the Twenty-First Century; In Information Society, Even the Pigs are it Compatible; In Information Society, Freedom from Information is a Scarce Resource; Less is More; In Information Society, the Gaps are Being Filled with Fast Time; No Technological Changes Turn Out as Anticipated; In the Twenty-First Century, Freedom and Vulnerability are Synonyms; New Tensions Supplement the Old Ones
- 3 The Time of the Book, the Clock and MoneyAfter Speech and Visual Art, Writing Marked a Major Watershed in Information Technology; The Clock was Introduced to Regulate Prayer Times; What Does it Regulate Now?; Money Belongs to the Same Family of Information Technologies as Writing and Clocks; Notation Does the Same Kind of Work As Writing, Numbers, Clocks and Money; Society Becomes Increasingly Abstract; Linear Time is Not Part of the Problem; 4 Speed; Our History is the History of Acceleration; Speed is An Addictive Drug; Speed Leads to Simplification; Speed Creates Assembly Line Effects
- Speed Leads to a Loss of PrecisionSpeed Demands Space; Speed is Contagious; Gains and Losses Tend to Equal Each Other Out; Technological Change Leads To Unpredicted Side-Effects; 5 Exponential Growth; Exponential Growth is Even and May Seem Undramatic for a Long Time; Exponential Growth Creates Scarcity of Space; Side-Effects Become Dominant; There is a Growing Amount of Everything; The Growth Rates in Cyberspace Surpass Everything Else; Time Goes Towards Zero; 6 Stacking; The Moment Precludes Development; Filters Against Fragmentation do not Remove Fragmentation; Pieces Replace Totalities
- Contemporary Culture Runs at Full Speed Without Moving an InchStacking Replaces Internal Development; The Law of Diminishing Returns Strikes with a Vengeance; Information Lint Destroys Continuity; 7 The Lego Brick Syndrome; An Accelerated Professional Life Offers Flexibility and Removes Security; The Distinction Between Work and Leisure is Erased; Family Life is By Nature Slow and Fits the Current Era Badly; The Cult of Youth is Caused By the Tyranny of the Moment; Consumption is Stacked, and Coherence Disappears; Does the Information Revolution Actually Increase Efficiency?
- 8 The Pleasures of Slow TimeSources; 2 Information Culture, Information Cult; 3 The Time of the Book, the Clock and Money; 4 Speed; 5 Exponential Growth; 6 Stacking; 7 The Lego Brick Syndrome; 8 The Pleasures of Slow Time; Index
- Isbn
- 9780585426358
- Label
- Tyranny of the moment : fast and slow time in the information age
- Title
- Tyranny of the moment
- Title remainder
- fast and slow time in the information age
- Statement of responsibility
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen
- Subject
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- Tecnología de la información -- Aspectos sociales
- Time pressure
- Information society
- Technologie de l'information -- Aspect social
- Tiempo -- Aspectos sociales
- Sociedad de información
- Computers and civilization
- Electronic books
- Sociale aspecten
- Computers and civilization
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies | Democracy
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Temps -- Aspect social
- Ordinateurs et civilisation
- Informatietechnologie
- Tijd
- Computación -- Civilización
- Time -- Social aspects
- Contrainte de temps
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- COMPUTERS -- Information Technology
- Société informatisée
- Informatiemaatschappij
- Information society
- Time pressure
- Time -- Social aspects
- Language
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- eng
- nor
- eng
- Summary
- A study of the universal dilemma of the scarcity of time
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Eriksen, Thomas Hylland
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Information society
- Information technology
- Time
- Time pressure
- Computers and civilization
- Société informatisée
- Technologie de l'information
- Temps
- Contrainte de temps
- Ordinateurs et civilisation
- COMPUTERS
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Computers and civilization
- Information society
- Information technology
- Time pressure
- Time
- Informatiemaatschappij
- Informatietechnologie
- Tijd
- Sociale aspecten
- Sociedad de información
- Tecnología de la información
- Tiempo
- Computación
- Label
- Tyranny of the moment : fast and slow time in the information age, Thomas Hylland Eriksen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction: Mind the Gap!; 2 Information Culture, Information Cult; The Twenty-First Century Began in 1991; The Internet is a Template for the Twenty-First Century; In Information Society, Even the Pigs are it Compatible; In Information Society, Freedom from Information is a Scarce Resource; Less is More; In Information Society, the Gaps are Being Filled with Fast Time; No Technological Changes Turn Out as Anticipated; In the Twenty-First Century, Freedom and Vulnerability are Synonyms; New Tensions Supplement the Old Ones
- 3 The Time of the Book, the Clock and MoneyAfter Speech and Visual Art, Writing Marked a Major Watershed in Information Technology; The Clock was Introduced to Regulate Prayer Times; What Does it Regulate Now?; Money Belongs to the Same Family of Information Technologies as Writing and Clocks; Notation Does the Same Kind of Work As Writing, Numbers, Clocks and Money; Society Becomes Increasingly Abstract; Linear Time is Not Part of the Problem; 4 Speed; Our History is the History of Acceleration; Speed is An Addictive Drug; Speed Leads to Simplification; Speed Creates Assembly Line Effects
- Speed Leads to a Loss of PrecisionSpeed Demands Space; Speed is Contagious; Gains and Losses Tend to Equal Each Other Out; Technological Change Leads To Unpredicted Side-Effects; 5 Exponential Growth; Exponential Growth is Even and May Seem Undramatic for a Long Time; Exponential Growth Creates Scarcity of Space; Side-Effects Become Dominant; There is a Growing Amount of Everything; The Growth Rates in Cyberspace Surpass Everything Else; Time Goes Towards Zero; 6 Stacking; The Moment Precludes Development; Filters Against Fragmentation do not Remove Fragmentation; Pieces Replace Totalities
- Contemporary Culture Runs at Full Speed Without Moving an InchStacking Replaces Internal Development; The Law of Diminishing Returns Strikes with a Vengeance; Information Lint Destroys Continuity; 7 The Lego Brick Syndrome; An Accelerated Professional Life Offers Flexibility and Removes Security; The Distinction Between Work and Leisure is Erased; Family Life is By Nature Slow and Fits the Current Era Badly; The Cult of Youth is Caused By the Tyranny of the Moment; Consumption is Stacked, and Coherence Disappears; Does the Information Revolution Actually Increase Efficiency?
- 8 The Pleasures of Slow TimeSources; 2 Information Culture, Information Cult; 3 The Time of the Book, the Clock and Money; 4 Speed; 5 Exponential Growth; 6 Stacking; 7 The Lego Brick Syndrome; 8 The Pleasures of Slow Time; Index
- Control code
- ocm50811566
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 180 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780585426358
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 9780745317755
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt184pn1m
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)50811566
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Tyranny of the moment : fast and slow time in the information age, Thomas Hylland Eriksen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction: Mind the Gap!; 2 Information Culture, Information Cult; The Twenty-First Century Began in 1991; The Internet is a Template for the Twenty-First Century; In Information Society, Even the Pigs are it Compatible; In Information Society, Freedom from Information is a Scarce Resource; Less is More; In Information Society, the Gaps are Being Filled with Fast Time; No Technological Changes Turn Out as Anticipated; In the Twenty-First Century, Freedom and Vulnerability are Synonyms; New Tensions Supplement the Old Ones
- 3 The Time of the Book, the Clock and MoneyAfter Speech and Visual Art, Writing Marked a Major Watershed in Information Technology; The Clock was Introduced to Regulate Prayer Times; What Does it Regulate Now?; Money Belongs to the Same Family of Information Technologies as Writing and Clocks; Notation Does the Same Kind of Work As Writing, Numbers, Clocks and Money; Society Becomes Increasingly Abstract; Linear Time is Not Part of the Problem; 4 Speed; Our History is the History of Acceleration; Speed is An Addictive Drug; Speed Leads to Simplification; Speed Creates Assembly Line Effects
- Speed Leads to a Loss of PrecisionSpeed Demands Space; Speed is Contagious; Gains and Losses Tend to Equal Each Other Out; Technological Change Leads To Unpredicted Side-Effects; 5 Exponential Growth; Exponential Growth is Even and May Seem Undramatic for a Long Time; Exponential Growth Creates Scarcity of Space; Side-Effects Become Dominant; There is a Growing Amount of Everything; The Growth Rates in Cyberspace Surpass Everything Else; Time Goes Towards Zero; 6 Stacking; The Moment Precludes Development; Filters Against Fragmentation do not Remove Fragmentation; Pieces Replace Totalities
- Contemporary Culture Runs at Full Speed Without Moving an InchStacking Replaces Internal Development; The Law of Diminishing Returns Strikes with a Vengeance; Information Lint Destroys Continuity; 7 The Lego Brick Syndrome; An Accelerated Professional Life Offers Flexibility and Removes Security; The Distinction Between Work and Leisure is Erased; Family Life is By Nature Slow and Fits the Current Era Badly; The Cult of Youth is Caused By the Tyranny of the Moment; Consumption is Stacked, and Coherence Disappears; Does the Information Revolution Actually Increase Efficiency?
- 8 The Pleasures of Slow TimeSources; 2 Information Culture, Information Cult; 3 The Time of the Book, the Clock and Money; 4 Speed; 5 Exponential Growth; 6 Stacking; 7 The Lego Brick Syndrome; 8 The Pleasures of Slow Time; Index
- Control code
- ocm50811566
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 180 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780585426358
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 9780745317755
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt184pn1m
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)50811566
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- COMPUTERS -- Information Technology
- Computación -- Civilización
- Computers and civilization
- Computers and civilization
- Contrainte de temps
- Electronic books
- Informatiemaatschappij
- Informatietechnologie
- Information society
- Information society
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Ordinateurs et civilisation
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies | Democracy
- Sociale aspecten
- Sociedad de información
- Société informatisée
- Technologie de l'information -- Aspect social
- Tecnología de la información -- Aspectos sociales
- Temps -- Aspect social
- Tiempo -- Aspectos sociales
- Tijd
- Time -- Social aspects
- Time -- Social aspects
- Time pressure
- Time pressure
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