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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Itō, Jōichi, 1966- author.

Howe, Jeff, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Technology and civilization.

Digital communications--Research--United States.

Digital communications.

Research.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

318 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, [2016]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-312).

ISBN:

9781455544592

1455544590

OCLC:

935196069