Hyperculture

Author: Stephen Bertman
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0275962059

Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed

The rampant illnesses of our society-including the disintegration of the family, the degradation of the environment, unlimited commercialism, and unrelenting stress-are familiar to us all. Get Hyperculture computer books for free.
For the first time, Stephen Bertman attempts to explain these disparate, overwhelmingly negative phenomena with a single, unifying principle: that the accelerated pace of American society is eroding the essence of our most fundamental values. In 1970, Alvin Toffler identified a psycho-biological disease he called future shock caused by too much change in too short a time. Now Bertman daringly diagnoses an even more serious condition, hyperculture, a chronic warping of morals and ethics caused by America's addiction to speed. The treatment, he argues in Check Hyperculture our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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