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Whiplash : how to survive our faster future / Joi Ito and Jeff Howe.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 318 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781455544592
  • 1455544590
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 23
LOC classification:
  • HC79.T4 I8165 2016
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.
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.Summary: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Leesburg Public Library Nonfiction Nonfiction 303.483 Ito Available 33099003435347
Books Books Marion Baysinger Memorial Library Nonfiction Nonfiction 303.483 Ito Available 34209000653185
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-312).

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.

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.

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