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The End of Patience : Cautionary Notes on the Information Revolution
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The End of Patience : Cautionary Notes on the Information Revolution Hardcover - 1999

by Shenk, David

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  • Title The End of Patience : Cautionary Notes on the Information Revolution
  • Author Shenk, David
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
  • Date 1999-08-22
  • Features Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 38558507-6
  • ISBN 9780253336347 / 0253336341
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.74 x 5.75 x 0.8 in (22.20 x 14.61 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Information society, Information technology - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99024979
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/1999, Page 1294
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/16/1999, Page 73

About the author

David Shenk is author of Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut, which The New York Times called "an indispensable guide to the big picture of technology's cultural impact," and the Chicago Tribune called "A concise, insightful, and welcome critique of the communications world we have created."

He is also co-author of Skeleton Key, and has contributed to Wired, Harper's, The New Republic, The New York Times, Feed, Salon, and NPR's All Things Considered. He is a co-founder of Technorealism, which seeks to articulate a more balanced approach to technology.

Shenk was a 1995-96 fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, in New York, and in 1998 traveled to Japan as a U.S.-Japan Foundation fellow.

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