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Book Reviews of Topics Affecting Almost All of Us Click on book title or image for more reviews or purchasing information. |
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Reviews by Amazon: In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. "Technology," she writes, "catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think." First published in 1984, The Second Self is still essential reading as a primer in the psychology of computation. This twentieth anniversary edition allows us to reconsider two decades of computer culture--to (re)experience what was and is most novel in our new media culture and to view our own contemporary relationship with technology with fresh eyes. Turkle frames this classic work with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text. |
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CrazyBusy : Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD
Are you too busy? Are you always running behind? Is your
calendar loaded with more than you can possibly accomplish? Is it
driving you crazy? You’re not alone. CrazyBusy–the modern phenomenon of
brain overload–is a national epidemic. Without intending it or
understanding how it happened, we’ve plunged ourselves into a mad.. |
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There was a time in the not-too-distant past when large companies and
powerful governments reigned supreme over the little guy. But new
technologies are empowering individuals like never before, and the
Davids of the world-the amateur journalists, musicians, and small
businessmen and women-are suddenly making a huge economic and social
impact. |
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