Future Hype and In Persuasion Nation
Related StoriesIn Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
"Our product cannot read your baby's mind," says a representative from a toy corporation in George Saunders's latest collection of short stories, "although we are probably working on it." In these dark, biting, and oddly compassionate tales, Saunders's satirical characters and bureaucracy-laden, brand-name-driven consumer culture present America in a fun-house mirror.
Future Hype by Bob Seidensticker
Bob Seidensticker wants you to stop crowing about how much your damn BlackBerry has changed life as we know it. You want a real technological paradigm shift? How about the telegraph? An MIT grad and Microsoft vet, the author sets up and knocks down nine "wrongheaded notions about techno-logical change" in a book that's sure to top the counterintuitive charts. Oh, and chill out about the Internet, okay?
Related Stories: | Topics:Work/Life, Business Books, George Saunders, Bob Seidensticker, Media, Books and Literature, Infant Development |
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