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Digital ShockHerve Fischer

Digital Shock

280 pagesFirst published 20061 edition
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Hervé Fischer believes that the digital revolution is a definitive moment in human history, as important as the discovery of fire. Deceptively quiet, it is invasive, radical, and affects all aspects of human activity. Fischer cautions that we need to develop a cyberphilosophy to confront this new reality. In Digital Shock, the first English translation of his critically accalimed Le Choc du numérique: à l'aube d'une nouvelle civilization, le triomphe des cyberprimitifs, Fischer warns that we must take a critical approach to these immensely beneficial, yet potentially devastating,…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
HardcoverMcGill-Queen's University Press20062809780773531147
Social aspectsAspect socialCybernétiqueSociété informatiséeSocial aspects of CyberneticsComputers and civilizationDigital electronicsCybernetics