List Books » I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
Authors: Nick Bilton, Mike Chamberlain
ISBN-13: 9780307736581, ISBN-10: 030773658X
Format: MP3 Book
Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc.
Date Published: September 2010
Edition: Unabridged
NICK BILTON is the lead technology writer for the New York Times Bits blog and a reporter for the paper. His work weaves together many different fields of storytelling, including advertising, journalism, design, technology, user interface, documentary film, and hardware hacking and the effects of all of these on society. At the Times, he is also worked in the research and development labs, peering into the future and helping chart the path for the future of news. Bilton is also an adjunct professor for New York University’s interactive telecommunication program and speaks regularly around the world at major technology and publishing conferences and at universities.
Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?
The world, as Nick Bilton--with tongue-in-cheek--shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the twenty-first-century version of the fear that always takes hold as new technology replaces the old. In fact, as Bilton shows, the digital era we are part of is, in all its creative and disruptive forms, the foundation for exciting and engaging experiences not only for business but society as well.
Both visionary and practical, I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works captures the zeitgeist of an emerging age, providing the understanding of how a radically changed media world is influencing human behavior:
I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works walks its own talk by creating a unique reader experience: Semacodes embedded in both print and eBook versions will take readers directly to Bilton's website (www.NickBilton.com), where they can access videos of the author further developing his point of view and also delve into the research that was key to shaping the central ideas of the book. The website will also offer links to related content and the ability to comment on a chapter, allowing the reader to join the conversation.
From the Hardcover edition.
author's note
introduction cancel my subscription 1
1 bunnies, markets, and the bottom line porn leads the way 19
2 scribbling monks and comic books it's ok---you've survived this before 45
3 your cognitive road map anchoring communities 77
4 suggestions and swarms trusting computers and humans 103
5 when surgeons play video games our chaning brains 133
6 me in the middle the rise of economics 161
7 warning: danger zone ahead multiple multitasking multitaskers 197
8 what the future will look like a prescription for change 227
epilogue why they're not coming back 263
acknowledgments 267
notes and sources 271
index 285