| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
274 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: our Technologically Intoxicated zone -- What is High Tech[middle dot]High Touch? -- Today: Understanding Consumer Technology Through Time and Play -- Technology is the currency of our Lives -- The Militory-Nintendo complex -- Tomorrow: Understanding Genetic Technology Through Religion and Art -- Galileo [right arrow] Darwin [right arrow] Dna -- Death, sex, and the Body: The New specimen Art Movement -- Methodology -- Profiles of Interviewees. |
| Summary |
Naisbitt argues that American culture is in 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"--Violent games children play to genetically-engineered animals to wether one can claim to have scaled Everest if supplemental oxygen was used."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
High technology -- Social aspects.
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High technology -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00956422
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Soziologie (DE-588)4077624-4
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Spitzentechnologie (DE-588)4124236-1
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| Added Author |
Naisbitt, Nana, 1957-
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Philips, Douglas.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Naisbitt, John. High tech, high touch. 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, 1999 (OCoLC)607461201 |
| ISBN |
0767903838 |
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9780767903837 |
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