High tech high touch : technology and our accelerated search for meaning / by John Naisbitt
Publisher: London : Nicholas Brealey, 2001Description: 274 p.; 24 cm001: 10961ISBN: 1857882601Subject(s): Technological change | High technology | Philosophy | Culture | Computer and video games | Genetic engineering | Body, HumanDDC classification: 303.483 NAIItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The one great megatrend of the new millennium.
Includes acknowledgements
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface to the Paperback Edition (p. xiii)
- Part 1 Today: Understanding Consumer Technology Through Time and Play (p. 7)
- The Intoxication Zone (p. 9)
- America's story (p. 9)
- Symptoms of high tech intoxication (p. 12)
- Technology Is the Currency of Our Lives (p. 31)
- High-touch time (p. 32)
- High-tech time (p. 33)
- The siren's call (p. 36)
- Advanced simplicity (p. 37)
- High-tech simplicity (p. 40)
- Technology as community (p. 42)
- Expanding time (p. 46)
- A high-touch message through high-tech media (p. 48)
- Labor or leisure (p. 50)
- Recipe for escape (p. 52)
- Escape through adventure travel (p. 55)
- The Military-Nintendo Complex (p. 65)
- Huge market (p. 67)
- From ping-pong to murder (p. 68)
- From audio and visuals to tactile (p. 69)
- Packaged emotions (p. 70)
- Simulation for soldiers (p. 72)
- Serious war games (p. 74)
- Marine doom (p. 75)
- The military-Nintendo complex (p. 77)
- Military games for kids (p. 79)
- The catharsis conundrum (p. 81)
- A culture of violence (p. 83)
- Television and tobacco (p. 85)
- The magical kiddy world (p. 87)
- Electronic parenting (p. 88)
- Conditions of a culture of violence (p. 89)
- Education, litigation, legislation (p. 98)
- Part 2 Tomorrow: Understanding Genetic Technology Through Religion and Art (p. 113)
- Galileo[right arrow]Darwin[right arrow]DNA (p. 115)
- Geneticists: the new explorers (p. 117)
- Germline gene therapy (p. 123)
- The science (p. 124)
- The promise (p. 126)
- The concerns (p. 127)
- Scientific concerns (p. 128)
- Ethical concerns (p. 130)
- Beneath the skin: genetic privacy/genetic discrimination (p. 139)
- Genetic patenting and market-driven technologies (p. 146)
- Theological concerns (p. 149)
- Cloning humans (p. 158)
- Animal, vegetable, mineral[right arrow]A, C, G, and T (p. 162)
- Genetic engineering in agriculture (p. 166)
- Anticipating the consequences (p. 172)
- The dogma of science and religion (p. 173)
- Death, Sex, and the Body: The New Specimen Art Movement (p. 185)
- Ultimate specimen (p. 187)
- Sex (p. 190)
- The inner body (p. 194)
- Outer body (p. 208)
- The corporeal body (p. 214)
- Death (p. 218)
- Epilogue (p. 227)
- Appendix A Methodology (p. 233)
- Appendix B Profiles of Interviewees (p. 241)
- Acknowledgments (p. 271)
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