The four-dimensional human
Subtitle: ways of being in the digital world
By: Laurence Scott
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780393353075
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Social aspects; Digital media; Human-computer interaction; Internet
Other titles: 4-dimensional human; 4-D human
Description: A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the three-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, friendship, commerce, pursuit and escape, and moving from Hamlet to the ghosts of social media, from Seinfeld to the fall of Gaddafi, from Facebook politics to Oedipus, The Four-Dimensional Human is a highly original and pioneering portrait of life in a digital landscape. -- Provided by publisher.

"Hailed as a 'New Generation Thinker" by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC, the author, blending tech-philosophy with a vast array of insights, shows how we are entering into a four-dimensional world, filled with ceaseless communication, instant information and global connection, that is dramatically changing us,"--NoveList.
Notes: "First published by The Random House Group Ltd."--Title page verso.

Revised edition of the author's The four-dimensional human, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246).
Table of contents: title: The reverse peephole; title: Anatomically correct; title: A different kind of buzz; title: Style after substance; title: Keeping and killing time; title: Weeping Toms; title: The cabin in the woods; title: The blank screen; title: Fairy fire.