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"Every revolution in communication technology -from papyrus to the printing press to Twitter- is as much an opportunity to be drawn away from something as it is to be drawn toward something. And yet, as we embrace technology's gifts, we usually fail to consider what we're giving up in the process. Why would we bother to register the end of solitude, of ignorance, of lack ? Why would we care that an absence had disappeared ?"Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean ?For future generations, it won't mean anything very obvious. They will be so immersed in online life that questions about the Internet's basic purpose or meaning will vanish.But those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference between Before and After. We catch ourselves idly reaching for our phones at the bus stop. Or we notice how, mid-conversation, a fumbling friend dives into the perfect recall of Google.In this eloquent and thought-provoking book, Michael Harris argues that amid all the changes we're experiencing, the most interesting is the one that future generations will find hardest to grasp. That is the end of absence - the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished. There's no true free time when you carry a smartphone. Today's rarest commodity is the chance to be alone with your own thoughts.To understand our predicament, and what we should do about it, Harris explores this loss of lack in chapters devoted to every corner of our lives, from sex and commerce to memory and attention span. His book is a kind of witness for the straddle generatio-a burst of empathy for those of us who suspect that our technologies use us as much as we use them.By placing our situation in a rich historical context, Harris helps us remember which parts of that earlier world we don't want to lose forever. He urges us to look up - even briefly - from our screens. To remain awake to what came before. To again take pleasure in absence.Bron : http://www.amazon.com

Information society --- Information technology --- Internet --- Technology --- Social psychology --- Société informatisée --- Technologie de l'information --- Technologie --- Psychologie sociale --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Communicatiemiddelen --- Informatietechnologie --- Sociale media --- Sociologie --- Communicatiemiddel --- IT --- Erfelijkheidsleer --- Stadssamenleving --- Verpleegkunde

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"This book assembles a thoughtful collection of Michael Harris' accomplished verse. It includes poems of sorrow, sensuality, quirkiness and humour. Harris writes of illness, pain, marriage, death, imaginary fairy-tale monsters and much else. With a sharp wit and unaffected rhythm he handles the human and natural worlds with equal sensitivity."--

Canadian poetry --- Canadian poetry (English) --- Canadian literature

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What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers—for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications—this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources.Drawing on his personal experiences and obsessions as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyám to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, Michael Harris reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, he touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party?Disarmingly candid, relentlessly intelligent, and richly entertaining, Mathematics without Apologies takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life, from the philosophy and sociology of mathematics to its reflections in film and popular music, with detours through the mathematical and mystical traditions of Russia, India, medieval Islam, the Bronx, and beyond.

Mathematicians. --- Mathematics --- Social aspects.

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