The big disconnect : the story of technology and loneliness

Slade, Giles.

Book 2012

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. According to recent surveys, at any given moment, sixty million Americans, 20 percent of the population, feel sufficiently isolated to report that loneliness is a major source of unhappiness. Have we arrived at a new kind of consc...

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Household electronics Social aspects

Human-machine systems

Music Social aspects

Technology Psychological aspects

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ISBN:

9781616145958
1616145951

Description:

306 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Immortality and Free Will.-- Breadcrumbs. Incunabula ; Self-serve ; Selling robots ; Closed cars ; Radio's "free" content ; Screens ; Stars.
Wired for Sound. Music is technology ; Distance grooming ; Palliative music ; Accessibility in American music ; Factory whistle, factory noise ; Stars, music, and personality ; Canned music ; Solitary (acousmatic) listening.
Trusting Machines. Trust in traditional societies ; Modern trust ; Modern alternatives to trust: professionalization ; Modern alternatives to trust: standardization ; Modern alternatives to trust: reliable machines ; National crisis of trust ; The arts and crafts of machines ; World without Oxytocin
Machines as Friends

LCCN:

2012013319

Control Number:

899562

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