Present shock
by Douglas Rushkoff · first published 2013
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"An award-winning author explores how the world works in our age of "continuous now". Back in the 1970s, futurism was all the rage. But looking forward is becoming a thing of the past. According to Douglas Rushkoff, "presentism" is the new ethos of a society that's always on, in real time, updating live. Guided by neither history nor long term goals, we navigate a sea of media that blend the past and future into a mash-up of instantaneous experience. Rushkoff shows how this trend is both disorienting and exhilarating. Without linear narrative we get both the humiliations of reality TV and the
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We live in a post-post-modern world. These days it's more relevant to read Rushkoff and look into his 'present shock' idea: http://www.rushkoff.com/books/present-shock/ > In his new book, PRESENT SHOCK: When Everything Happens Now (Current; March 15, 2013), Rushkoff introduces the phenomenon of presentism, or – since…
on “Future Shock Documentary (1972) [video]” ↗I wrote about this recently: http://blog.higg.im/2015/01/02/2014-the-year-of-feeling-burn... We are awash in information. Douglas Rushkoff documents this recent phenomenon very well. His book Present Shock articulates the problem / dilemma really well. Worth a read - if you haven't already added it to your Amazon wishlist and is not another book in your digital bucket list. My personal solution was to…
on “Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma” ↗The writers and commentators of today tend to fall into niche categories or just write fiction. There is Nicholas Carr's and Douglas Rushkoff. The latter even wrote a book called Present Shock. Most people I can think of are also of the past such as Vinge, Marshall McLuhan or Freeman Dyson (who came up with the idea of the Dyson sphere, not the vacuum) who were also brilliant. McLuhan is…
on “Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87” ↗…represents culturally, and since the explosion of The Internet, culture is now smeared and has no basis in a decade anymore. We've reached a post-post-post-post modern era. Rushkoff goes into this more in his 'present shock' theory https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4131130/obsessed-with-now...
on “Decades” ↗Any relationship between TheBrain and org-brain, other than concept? Curiously, I'd just run across Jerry Michalski's mind-mapping via Doug Rushkoff's Present Shock a couple of days ago.
on “Org-brain – mind-mapping for org-mode” ↗"Present Shock" by Douglas Rushkoff "Super Forecasting" by Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins "The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control" by Walter Mischel "Precision: Statistical…
on “Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?” ↗"Yes, I'm leaving Facebook myself - largely because the values and practices of the company running this website are just too inconsistent with those I've been espousing in my books, particularly Present Shock. Companies can misrepresent you based on your "likes", showing you in ads for things you may not even know about. It feels inappropriate for me to be soliciting likes - and your vulnerability - particularly…
on “Douglas Rushkoff leaves Facebook.” ↗