Full name: The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

Author: Laurence Scott Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Science, Sociology Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780434023110 9781721331079 0434023116 1721331077

A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives, argues Laurence Scott. We are increasingly coaxed from the third-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information and global connection. Our portals to this new world have been wedged open, and the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. But what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? How do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style and tilt of our consciousness? What new sensitivities and sensibilities are emerging with our exposure to the delights, sorrows and anxieties of a networked world? And how do we live in public, with these recoded private lives? Tackling ideas of time, space, isolation, silence and threat - how our modern-day anxieties manifest online - and moving from Hamlet to the ghosts of social media, from Seinfeld to the fall of Gaddafi, from Twitter art to Oedipus, The Four-Dimensional Human is a highly original and pioneering portrait of life in a digital landscape. Similar books: The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson Red Earth, White Lies by Vine Deloria Jr. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson The People's Platform by Astra Taylor Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris The Geography of Thought by Richard Nisbett Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard Being Mortal by Atul Gawande