Empires of Speed

Empires of Speed
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9789004175907
ISBN-13 : 9004175903
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Download or read book Empires of Speed written by Robert Hassan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the 21st century is witnessing the emergence of a social, political and technological revolution in networked computing. We now live in a networked society, but it functions and develops at such an accelerating rate that it becomes increasingly difficult to adequately understand the nature of this radical society. "Empires of Speed" is the first book to analyse the far-reaching transformations of speed-filled everyday life. In a compelling study Hassan shows that we are leaving behind a modern world based upon the time of the clock, and are entering a new and volatile phase where an accelerating network time poses fundamental economic and political challenges in our postmodern world, challenges we barely comprehend and are thus woefully unprepared for.


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