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Whiplash

by Joichi Ito, Jeff Howe

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"The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are suddenly just one click or tweet or post away from each other. When these two revolutions joined, an explosive force was unleashed that is transforming every aspect of society, from business to culture and from the pub

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  • clumsysmurf · Dec 12, 2016 · Recommends

    A few new books the YC crowd might like: "Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1455544590 "What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1468313754 "Shrinking…

    on “YC's Winter Reading List” ↗
  • joehartshorn · Nov 10, 2020 · Mentions

    I read Whiplash by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe (MITP), in which Joi talked about "demo or die", and credited Nicholas Negroponte as the source of that phrase, but apparently not: NN - "Somebody else actually coined the term…

    on “Demo or Die (1995)” ↗

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