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The new digital age is the most ambitious attempt to date to sketch the contours of the world that will emerge as a result of the penetration of electronic networking into every corner of the. In this lesson, we discuss what the digital age has meant for books and their value in society. The digital age has even brought a new kind of guerrilla war. The term new age itself refers to the age of aquarius, which. How old school publishers can win in the digital age. Beginning on the homefront, the authors argue that the new digital age promises to usher in a world of impressive efficiencies. New york stock exchange tom farley, president v foreword visa inc. The new digital age is mustreading for anyone who wants to truly understand the depths of the digital. Designing for the digital age on designation books pdf. As more books are published than ever before, this timely publication addresses a range of critically important themes relating to the book including the present and future for publishing, libraries, literacy and learning in the information society.
What follows is a full executive summary of the new digital age. Again, so many opportunities available, but so few taken. Rather than a new age of universal harmony, automated by machines programmed to critically interpret reality in perfectly authoritative ways, digital technology has unearthed and organized deplorably bad factions, bad individuals, and bad content on an unimaginable scale. Combining the skills of a social scientist and a computer scientist, cohen and schmidt blend the technical and the human, the scientific and the political, in ways i rarely saw while in government.
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