High Tech, High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning - Hardcover

Naisbitt, John; Naisbitt, Nana; Philips, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767903838 ISBN 13: 9780767903837

Verlag: Broadway Books, 1999

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Book by Naisbitt John Naisbitt Nana Philips Douglas

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The author of the best-selling, prophetic Megatrends turns his vision to the relationship between technology and spirituality, describing the interplay between these two important trends and its role in changing science, war, religion, commerce, art, communications, and entertainment. 100,000 first printing.

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isbitt, the preeminent social forecaster of our time and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Megatrends, a remarkable examination of the role technology plays in our accelerated search for meaning.

With American culture now being increasingly broadcast through technology--from TV and movies to music to the Internet and electronic games--we are living in what John Naisbitt calls the Technologically Intoxicated Zone. This zone is a confusing and distracted state where we both fear and worship technology, where we see technologies as toys and quick-fixes, and where we become obsessed with what is "real" and what is "fake"--from the violent games children play to genetically-engineered animals to whether one can claim to have scaled Everest if supplemental oxygen was used.

It is technology's saturation of American society--with its fabulous innovations and its devastating consequences--that John Naisbitt and his coauthors N

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Broadway Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0767903838
• ISBN 13: 9780767903837
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274