nathanaracena's review against another edition

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2.0

Sadly boring. I enjoyed some of Biltons previous work but found this so droll. Some small fragments of the book are thought provoking but for a book that looks at tech, how it’s crafted and shaped our world, and how it will look in the future, this just lacked any sense of wonder.

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3.0

This was a good primer to a lot of the trends that are shaping our current and future world, but I found it was a bit too basic for someone who is already paying attention to many of these trends.

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4.0

Nick Bilton is a technology writer for the New York Times. In this book, he talks about how technology and the Internet are changing media and our entire world rapidly. He puts a positive spin on the demise of "traditional" ways of doing things, and opened my mind to a lot of possibilities I hadn't thought of for our future digital world. He also included some interesting stuff about how our news is becoming personalized and curated in new and individual ways. A fascinating read.

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4.0

Really getting into this one. It seems like a great book for any information professional. Never realized the porn industry and librarians had similar battles!

kedawen's review

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3.0

A bit out of date, naturally, but otherwise this book was a solid look at the future of media technology. It made me excited for the kinds of storytelling we'll see in the next decade... lots of potential! Of course, the most interesting chapter was the one on the porn industry. Haha!

theresa__13's review

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informative medium-paced

3.0

lasiepedimore's review against another edition

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2.0

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Sono rimasta un po’ delusa da questo libro, che credo sia la prima (e per ora unica) cantonata che ho preso nello scegliere i libri per la 2017 Read Harder Challenge. Non penso sia del tutto colpa di Nick Bilton, ma questo non-fiction è invecchiato un po’ male.

Dico questo perché è un libro del 2010: sembra quasi impossibile, visto che stiamo parlando di un passato così recente, ma molte delle tecnologie (e servizi conseguenti) che oggi usiamo quotidianamente erano appena state introdotte, o addirittura non erano ancora nate. Per dire, gli smartphone e i tablet si sono sviluppati nei primi anni 2000, Spotify è del 2008, Netflix (per come la conosciamo oggi) del 2011 e così via.

Giusto per ribadire il concetto dell’invecchiamento precoce, vi dirò anche che in teoria Io vivo nel futuro doveva essere corredato di un’app e di contenuti ulteriori sul sito dell’autore, dei quali non c’è più alcuna traccia…

Il fatto è che è un libro focalizzato suglia aspetti positivi delle nuove tecnologie – il che andrebbe bene se non fosse che oggi siamo immersi in alcuni lati negativi nel 2010 appena accennati, ma adesso decisamente importanti. È un peccato, perché poi in Io vivo nel futuro ci sono anche informazioni interessanti, soprattutto su come gli esseri umani hanno fronte a cambiamenti così imponenti.

scotchneat's review

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3.0

It's the apocalypse! No. Not really. As anyone with some knowledge of history knows, significant technological change leads to fear and loathing. So we aren't alone in trying to figure out how it works, or will work.

I like that Bilton doesn't take the subject matter too seriously. Social media gurus spend enough time doing that. Though he does fall prey to some business-speak now and again which detracts from his mostly accessible writing style.

He covers the porn industry as leading-edge innovator, literacy in the digital age and how revenue models work in this new era.

There are some notes that stuck with me. How communities are our filters--in other words, my world view and my buying habits are more influenced by the communities I participate in than any mainstream channel. How immediacy trumps everything--it's more important that quality or quantity.

The most interesting stuff had to do with the way the modern brain is adapting to this latest technology. Your little Mary who's really good at video games? Future surgeon!

You can also hear Bilton talk about these phenomena on his site, http://www.nickbilton.com.
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