Analog
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA, USA
Language: eng
Format: e-book
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780262544498
Copyright date: 2022
First sentence: In his review of David Sax’s 2016 book, Revenge of the Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, the environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote: “Digital life’s too self-absorbed—either we evolve quickly away from the social primates we have always been or else we will quietly suffer from the solipsism inherent in straight at ourselves reflected in a screen.”
Table of contents: title: Series Forward; title: Acknowledgments; label: 1
title: Introduction; label: 2
title: Being Analog; label: 3
title: Retro Analog (The Zombie in the Digital Machine); label: 4
title: Ancient Analog: Writing, Computer, Clock; label: 5
title: Mechanical Analog: Conquest by the Machine; label: 6
title: Electronic Analog; label: 7
title: Analog to Digital; title: Glossary; title: Notes; title: Further Reading; title: Index