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The great acceleration : how the world is getting faster, faster

Colvile, Robert2016
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Instant messaging. Superfast broadband. High-frequency trading. The world is, undeniably, accelerating. Great acceleration of change is evident in all spheres of modern life. In this revelatory study, Robert Colvile examines how and why this is happening, why it's unlikely we'll be able to slow down - and why this may be no bad thing. It's a book peppered with slogans from this new world's heavy hitters: Ried Hoffman, the inventor of LinkedIn: 'If you're not embarrassed by your first version, you waited too long to ship it'; 'Carry on failing until you succeed'; Jeff Bezos, 'Amazon isn't happening to the book business, the future is happening to the book business'; 'You jump off a cliff and you assemble an aeroplane on the way down' is from Mark Zuckerberg; 'Move fast and break things' is another of his. This is a book that zips along itself but whose words will make you slow down and think.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Collation:
390 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408840078 (hbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
1374008
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