Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness - Giles Slade - Books - Prometheus Books - 9781616145958 - August 24, 2012
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Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness

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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  

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