Adams, Tyrone

Communication shock : the rhetoric of new technology Tyrone Adams, Stephen A. Smith - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, c2015. - xi, 196 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Framing and understanding change -- Nanotechnology basics -- On computers and microcircuits -- Microchips and spintronics -- Radio frequency identification technology (RFID) -- The emergence of artificial intelligence -- The internet communications revolution -- An internet throughout air and space -- Considering the "digital divide" -- The acceleration and integration of everything -- Communication shock -- Aftershocks.

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler's acclaimed works peering into the future of the technological society, Communication Shock is a concise history of communication technologies and an exploration of the possible social and human impacts of nanotechnology on the ecology of human communication.

978-1443876971


Communication--Technological innovations
Communication--Social aspects

302.2 AD CO

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