Digital is destroying everything : what the tech giants won't tell you about how robots, big data, and algorithms are radically remaking your future

Edwards, Andrew V. 1956- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781442246515
ISBN: 1442246510
ISBN: 9781442246522
ISBN: 1442246529
Physical Description: print
xiii, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Digital is destroying everything -- Crazy train : digital is destroying the music industry -- The Bezos bauble : digital is destroying the newsprint industry -- The business case : when digital destroys digital -- Undigital, unemployed : digital is destroying the job market -- The lonely screen : digital is destroying human interaction -- Campus-killing : digital is destroying education -- The downtown next time : digital is destroying urban life in America -- Oversharing and undercounting : digital is destroying rational discourse and the democratic process -- Books, bath, and beyond : digital is destroying retail -- Digital has destroyed authoritarian rule (or has it)? -- Obsessive compulsive : digital is destroying our will to create anything not digital -- Digital is destroying financial services -- Invaders from Earth : digital is destroying the professions (and more) -- Lesser pursuits destroyed by digital -- It's worse than you thought : digital is destroying privacy -- Maybe it's all bullshit -- Don't read this first.