托马斯·H·埃里克森(Thomas H. Eriksen),挪威奥斯陆大学社会人类学系教授,多年来一直关注政治、民族主义和全球化等问题,已出版多部社会学著作及相关主题的书籍。因为个人亲身经历了信息革命带来的不可预料的后果,遂决意写作此书,分析和阐释当下社会发生的一切。还撰写了多篇论文、杂文性的随笔和一些书评。
as a boy, I belonged to that subculture among children whose members are passionately interested in space travel and dinosaurs. Only late in puberty did I realise that there were thousands upon thousands of children, spread thinly across the modern world, who had been in exactly the same situation as myself: they were bored by the tedious routines of school, they were below-average performers in sports, and were for these reasons easily tempted by various forms of imaginative escape from reality, frequently spending their days among knights and dragons in societies of the generic J.R.R Tolkien kind, or at recently founded space colonies in the Andromeda region or on the moon, or else in the no less marvellous universe of natural science and technology. (查看原文)
0 有用 候新 2023-10-07 09:47:28 广东
这是一本写于2000年的书,也是在图书馆找书时无意间发现的书。令我惊叹的是,书中对信息社会的描述完全适用于当今的中国社会。信息、技术让我们高效的同时,也无形中让一切变得匆匆,浮躁着。作者并不是要表达对没有互联网社会、回到过去的渴望,而是让人们去看见、理解信息社会带来的后果。的确,从前慢是很难回去了,但是于个人而言,依然可以去诗意地栖居,在匆匆的日子里,为自己留有片刻的诗意、浪漫和温柔。
0 有用 甜美味的西瓜瓜 2023-03-31 22:23:51 浙江
“速度是一份巨大的礼物,直到它失控为止。”