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Big Disconnect

The Story of Technology and Loneliness
  • ISBN-13: 9781616145958
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
  • By Giles Slade
  • Price: AUD $38.99
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2012
  • Format: Paperback 306 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
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This is a revealing expose of how our love affair with ever - new technologies has undermined interpersonal relationships. Tablets, smart phones, and social networks all promise better opportunities to connect and stay connected. Yet what they really do is replace face-to-face interactions and disguise our growing inability to trust others. Have we arrived at a new kind of consciousness in which electronic interfaces receive most of our attention to the detriment of real interpersonal communication and empathy? The "Big Disconnect" offers a bracing look at a world where intimacy with machines is increasingly replacing mutual human intimacy. In a sweeping overview that ranges from the 19th century to the present, it reveals how consumer technologies changed from analgesic devices that banished the loneliness of a newly urban generation in the Gilded Age to prosthetic machines that act as substitutes for companionship.
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