UID:
kobvindex_ZLB16313867
Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9781478974949
,
9781478974949
Content:
" A funny thing has happened on our way to the digital utopia: we find ourselves increasingly missing reality. In this spirited audiobook, David Sax has found story after story of entrepreneurs, artisans, and creators who make real money by selling real things. And they're not just local craftspeople, either. As paper is supposedly vanishing, Moleskine notebooks—, company founded in 1997, the same year as the dot-com boom—,as grown into a large multinational corporation. As music supposedly migrates to the cloud, vinyl record sales were up over 50 percent in 2015, and generated almost $350m in sales. And as retail was supposedly hitting bottom, star Silicon Valley companies like Apple and Amazon are investing in brick-and-mortar stores. Sax's work reveals not just an underreported trend in business but a more fundamental truth about how humans shop, interact, and even think. He captures what you're missing when you can't find a good song in a vast iTunes library, or can't recall the details of an ebook you read,any simulation of a sight or smell or activity you experience in the real world is just that—, simulation. As you listen to this enlightening audiobook that seemingly simple observation gathers ever more weight. The success stories in this audiobook are eye-opening, even inspiring. You'll come away from this audiobook with a renewed sense of what it means to work, live, and shop. For anyone who has grown weary of overnight billionaires and social media market-disruptors, it is proof positive that there's another side of the story."
Content:
Rezension(1): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 15, 2016 In this study of consumerism in the 21st century, Sax ( Save the Deli ) sets out to prove that nostalgia is not the sole reason for the resurgence of vinyl records, film cameras, paper notebooks, and bookstores in an era dominated by digital technology. He travels across the United States, Canada, and Italy, visiting factories and startups, stores and cafes, where the focus is on solidifying a place for analog technologies and goods in a world full of screens, instant messages, and almost endless digital choices at one’s fingertips. Lastly, he investigates the meditative practices of executives in Silicon Valley and returns to a summer camp he attended as a child outside of Toronto, discovering how the people one might most expect to be glued to their illuminated screens–computer programmers and kids–are limiting technology’s place in their lives. Sax’s message is that digital technology has certainly made life easier, but the analog technologies of old can make life more rich and substantial. This book has a calming effect, telling readers, one analog page at a time, that tangible goods, in all their reassuring solidity, are back and are not going anywhere. Agent: Robert Guinsler, Sterling Lord Literistic. " Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:As futurist Alvin Toffler predicted in the mid-80s, the more high-tech society becomes, the more many people long to return to some of the old ways, which Toffler called high touch. David Sax enthusiastically analyzes a similar phenomenon in the 21st century as vinyl records, Polaroid cameras, writing with pen and paper, and brick-and-mortar stores--what Sax calls real things, as opposed to the virtual--are making a comeback. Sax's own emotional investment comes through as he reports on businesses and individuals who are doing things the way they used to be done. While listeners may not be happy to hear about the increased costs of going offline, the author's explorations of the new analog make for fascinating listening. J.A.S. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine"
Language:
English
URL:
https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/4575-1/2986608-TheRevengeOfAnalog.mp3
URL:
https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2e618ddb-6dc8-44a4-bacc-aa63db536491&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
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http://voebb.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=2E618DDB-6DC8-44A4-BACC-AA63DB536491
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