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Naisbitt, John; Naisbitt, Nana; Philips, Douglas

 
9780767903837: High Tech, High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning
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ISBN 10: 0767903838 ISBN 13: 9780767903837
Editorial: Broadway Books, 1999

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The author of the best-selling, prophetic Megatrends turns his vision to the relationship between technology and spirituality, describing the interplay between these two important trends and its role in changing science, war, religion, commerce, art, communications, and entertainment. 100,000 first printing.

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<b>High Tech/High Touch</b> is the result of an impassioned collaboration of a three-generation trio--John Naisbitt, his daughter Nana Naisbitt, and artist Douglas Phillips--and is unlike any other book John Naisbitt has ever written.<br><br>John Naisbitt, whose books have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide, has been accurately describing the future since 1968.  The recipient of twelve honorary degrees, Naisbitt is a former executive with IBM and Eastman Kodak and also served as a presidential appointee in the John F. Kennedy administration and as a special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson.  John lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Telluride, Colorado.<br><br>Nana Naisbitt and Douglas Philips, both writers, artists, and entrepreneurs, have worked on projects for Kellogg's, S

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isbitt, the preeminent social forecaster of our time and the author of the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <b>Megatrends</b>, a remarkable examination of the role technology plays in our accelerated search for meaning.<br><br>With American culture now being increasingly broadcast through technology--from TV and movies to music to the Internet and electronic games--we are living in what John Naisbitt calls the Technologically Intoxicated Zone. This zone is a confusing and distracted state where we both fear and worship technology, where we see technologies as toys and quick-fixes, and where we become obsessed with what is "real" and what is "fake"--from the violent games children play to genetically-engineered animals to whether one can claim to have scaled Everest if supplemental oxygen was used.<br><br>It is technology's saturation of American society--with its fabulous innovations and its devastating consequences--that John Naisbitt and his coauthors N

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Editorial
Broadway Books
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0767903838
ISBN 13 
9780767903837
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
274
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