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Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness Giles Slade
Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness
Giles Slade
Offers a look at a world where intimacy with machines is increasingly replacing mutual human intimacy. This title reveals how consumer technologies changed from analgesic devices that banished the loneliness of a newly urban generation in the Gilded Age to prosthetic machines that act as substitutes for companionship.
300 pages, illustrations throughout
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 24, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9781616145958 |
| Publishers | Prometheus Books |
| Pages | 306 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 21 mm · 335 g |
| Language | English |