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Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose ‘She Blinded Me With Science’ reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Breaking Bad, and was even covered by The Muppets...
Based on his meticulous notes and journals, The Speed of Sound chronicles Dolby’s life in the music business during the eighties; in Silicon Valley through the nineties, and at the forefront of the mobile phone revolution around the turn of the millennium – it was Dolby who created the synthesizer installed today on most mobile phones.
With humour and a considerable panache for storytelling, The Speed of Sound is a revealing look behind the curtain of the music industry, as well as a unique history of technology over the past thirty years. From sipping Chablis with Bill Gates to visiting Michael Jackson at his mansion or viewing the Web for the first time on Netscape founder Jim Clark’s laptop, this is both the view from the ultimate insider and also that of a technology pioneer whose groundbreaking ideas have helped shape the way we live today.
Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose 'She Blinded Me
With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982,
appeared in Breaking Bad, and was even covered by The Muppets...
Based on his meticulous notes and journals, The Speed of Sound
chronicles Dolby's life in the music business during the eighties;
in Silicon Valley through the nineties, and at the forefront of the
mobile phone revolution around the turn of the millennium - it was
Dolby who created the synthesizer installed today on most mobile
phones. With humour and a considerable panache for storytelling,
The Speed of Sound is a revealing look behind the curtain of the
music industry, as well as a unique history of technology over the
past thirty years. From sipping Chablis with Bill Gates to visiting
Michael Jackson at his mansion or viewing the Web for the first
time on Netscape founder Jim Clark's laptop, this is both the view
from the ultimate insider and also that of a technology pioneer
whose groundbreaking ideas have helped shape the way we live today.
A sociologist explores the many ways that digital natives'
interaction with technology has changed their relationship with
people, places, jobs, and other stabilizing structures and created
a new way of life that is at odds with the American Dream of past
generations. Digital natives are hacking the American Dream. Young
people brought up with the Internet, smartphones, and social media
are quickly rendering old habits, values, behaviors, and norms a
distant memory--creating the greatest generation gap in history. In
this eye-opening book, digital sociologist Julie M. Albright looks
at the many ways in which younger people, facilitated by
technology, are coming "untethered" from traditional aspirations
and ideals, and asks: What are the effects of being disconnected
from traditional, stabilizing social structures like churches,
marriage, political parties, and long-term employment? What does it
mean to be human when one's ties to people, places, jobs, and
societal institutions are weakened or broken, displaced by digital
hyper-connectivity? Albright sees both positives and negatives. On
the one hand, mobile connectivity has given digital nomads the
unprecedented opportunity to work or live anywhere. But, new
threats to well-being are emerging, including increased isolation,
anxiety, and loneliness, decreased physical exercise, ephemeral
relationships, fragmented attention spans, and detachment from the
calm of nature. In this time of rapid, global, technologically
driven change, this book offers fresh insights into the unintended
societal and psychological implications of lives exclusively lived
in a digital world.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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