Author Description

The digital age: an age of isolation, warped communication, disintegrating community, where unfiltered and unregulated information pours relentlessly through our lives, destorying what it means to be human. Or an age of marvels, where there is a world of wonder at our fingertips. Where we can communicated across the globe, learn in the blink of an eye, pull down the barriers that divide us and move forward together. Whatever your reaction to technological culutre, the speed with which oru world is changing is both mesmerising and challenging. In The Blind Giant, novelest and tech blogger Nick Harkaway draws together fascination and disparate ideas to answer the charge that digital culture is the source of all our modern ills, while at the same time showing where the dangers are real and suggesting how they can be combated. This is an essential handbook for everyone trying to be human in a digtal age -- Publisher's description.