The age of missing information

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261 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 1992 by Plume.

ISBN:
978-0-452-26980-4
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4 stars (1 review)

An excellent study of the modern extraction of man from his surroundings. Mr. McKibben, through an enlightening experiment of media vs. nature, pits McLuhan against Emerson to find the value of the information received when one relies solely on their respective subjects of study. Can a tree teach more than a TV? Find out, before it's too late!

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4 stars

A fascinating book which holds up over time, despite being very much of the 1980s. McKibben contrasts a full day's programming on the a then-cutting-edge 100-channel cable tv system to the lessons of nature. He learns, not surprisingly, that television leaves out a lot of information (as he amusingly recounts the things he saw on tv, and what he saw and experienced on a hike).returnreturnOne particularly interesting thought: he talks about how there had been no transformative technologies in his lifetime. Well, the Internet is here now. And it has only accelerated most of the trends he talked about.

Subjects

  • Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States
  • Popular culture -- United States
  • Nature
  • Philosophy of nature