The Four-Dimensional Human
Ways of Being in the Digital World
About the book
The way everyday digital life reshapes the inner self is the subject of Laurence Scott's debut. Scott, whom the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council named a New Generation Thinker, describes people pulled out of their three-dimensional, pre-digital selves into a fourth dimension of constant communication, instant information and global connection. He asks how networked technology changes the rhythm of thought and what new sensitivities it brings. The book takes up friendship, commerce, time, space, pursuit and escape, ranging widely, from Hamlet and Oedipus to Seinfeld, Facebook politics, the ghosts of social media and the fall of Gaddafi. Scott blends philosophy of technology with cultural criticism.
Cal Newport described it as a complex and interesting piece of literary criticism about technology and society and said he found it thought provoking throughout.
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Cal Newport (Author)
this doesn’t mean that Scott’s book only contained 30 pages that interested me: it’s a complicated and interesting work of literary techno-social criticism — which came close to winning the Samuel Johnson Prize two years ago — that I found thought provoking throughout.
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