Whiplash : how to survive our faster future / Joi Ito and Jeff Howe.
2016
HC79.T4 I8165 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Whiplash : how to survive our faster future / Joi Ito and Jeff Howe.
Author
Itō, Jōichi, 1966- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781455544592 (hardcover)
1455544590 (hardcover)
1455544590 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
318 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
HC79.T4 I8165 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48/3
Summary
The director of MIT's Media Lab and a contributor to "Wired" present a set of working principles for adapting and thriving in the face of the twenty-first century's rapidly changing and unpredictable digital environments.
The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are suddenly just one click or tweet or post away from each other. The future will run on an entirely new operating system-- with a steep learning curve. Ito and Howe present nine organizing principles for navigating and surviving this tumultuous period.
The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are suddenly just one click or tweet or post away from each other. The future will run on an entirely new operating system-- with a steep learning curve. Ito and Howe present nine organizing principles for navigating and surviving this tumultuous period.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-312).
Added Author
Howe, Jeff, 1970- author.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Emergence over authority
Pull over push
Compasses over maps
Risk over safety
Disobedience over compliance
Practice over theory
Diversity over ability
Resilience over strength
Systems over objects
Conclusion.
Emergence over authority
Pull over push
Compasses over maps
Risk over safety
Disobedience over compliance
Practice over theory
Diversity over ability
Resilience over strength
Systems over objects
Conclusion.