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Big Disconnect: the Story of Technology and Loneliness

By Giles , Slade

Book information

Publisher
Prometheus Books;Random House Publisher Services
Year
2012
ISBN
9781616145958, 9781616145965, 1616145951
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
785 kB (803328 bytes)
Pages
172 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Smart phones and social media sites may be contemporary fixations, but using technology to replace face-to-face interactions is not a new cultural phenomenon. Throughout our history, intimacy with machines has often supplanted mutual human connection. This book reveals how consumer technologies changed from analgesic devices that soothed the loneliness of a newly urban generation to prosthetic interfaces that act as substitutes for companionship in modern America. The history of this transformation helps explain why we use technology to mediate our connections with other human beings instead o.

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