Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

by Douglas Rushkoff

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Rushkoff diagnoses the psychological and social effects of a society addicted to real-time information. Constant presentness, he argues, destroys our ability to think in stories, narratives, and long arcs.

Published:: 2013
Pages:: 304

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Douglas Rushkoff's Present Shock is cited for its diagnosis of the always-on working style. Newport quotes: "We compete to process more emails... as if more to do on the computer meant something good. Instead of working inside the machine, as we did before, we must become the machine."

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