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Tyranny of the moment : fast and slow time in the information age / Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Original language: Norwegian Series: EBSCOhost eBook CollectionPublisher: London ; Sterling, Va : Pluto Press, 2001Description: ix, 180 p : ill ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 058542635X
  • 9780585426358
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 1783716231 | 9781783716234 | 074531774X | 9780745317748 | 9780745317755 | 178371624X | 0745317758 | Erscheint auch als: Tyranny of the moment. Druck-Ausgabe London ; Sterling, Va : Pluto Press, 2001DDC classification:
  • 303.48/33
  • 303.4833
RVK: RVK: CC 6320 | LB 31000 | LB 40000 | MS 1170LOC classification:
  • HM851
Online resources: Summary: 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.Summary: 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.Summary: A study of the universal dilemma of the scarcity of timeSummary: 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?Summary: 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.Summary: 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.PPN: PPN: 08660418XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-EBA | ZDB-4-NLEBK | ZDB-1-NEL
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