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Summary: Deceptive and Disjointed
Review: One of the most misleading titles I have ever read. Although purporting to cover issues regarding society's relationship to technology, the authors present a short and poorly reasoned discussion of media violence, followed up with much fluff regarding gene therapy and genetic manipulation.
I agree that violence in the media has a detrimental effect on society, however, I cannot stomach the idea that "the nihilistic music of a German rock band" contributed to the Littleton Colorado school shootings. Such tripe derails any rational discussion of the subject.
Regardless of the out of date information regarding genetic science, the heart of the book adds nothing to the premise. Had the authors actually spent time developing the idea of the "Technologically Intoxicated Zone" instead of presenting the ideas of religious scholars regarding gene therapy, the book may have had some value.
The original promise of the book is left entirely unfulfilled and the reader is left to fend for themselves regarding their own relationship, and that of their community, to technology.
I feel that the title is deceptive and the irrelevant arguments presented are disjointed.
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Summary: Got your own answers yet?
Review: Recently I always keep asking myself a question: " Are we addicted to the Internet world too much?" This book raises some good questions for us to begin to think about: 1. Do we favor the quick fix, from religion to nutrition? 2. Do we fear and worship technology? 3. Do we blur the distinction between real and fake? 4. Do we accept violence as normal? 5. Do we love technology as a toy? 6. Do we live our lives distanced and distracted?Reading this book is a very good beginning to look for signs of these symptoms in the world we live as well as in our culture. "Technology always originates from human nature."
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Summary: Got your own answers yet?
Review: Recently I always keep asking myself a question: " Are we addicted to the Internet world too much?" This book raises some good questions for us to begin to think about: 1. Do we favor the quick fix, from religion to nutrition? 2. Do we fear and worship technology? 3. Do we blur the distinction between real and fake? 4. Do we accept violence as normal? 5. Do we love technology as a toy? 6. Do we live our lives distanced and distracted? Reading this book is a very good beginning to look for signs of these symptoms in the world we live as well as in our culture. "Technology always originates from human nature."
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Summary: This book is a love story. We wrote what we could not hide.
Review: When Nana, John and I first started this book we had an idea of a what we might be able to offer about the impact of technology in American culture. Maybe a balance was happening. Maybe not. But something (we thought) wonderful was ahead. Our publisher and others were not pleased about what we had discovered in our research. Everyone wants a simple answer, a quick fix but we could not offer it. So what we wrote was our truth about the effect new technology is having on our lives and on the lives of our children. I am only one of the authors so I can only speak for myself. But what I have seen in my conversations throughout America is that we (being all, children, adults, teens) want a dialogue about the effects (good and bad) and what to do about them. We want to know truth even if it does not feel very good. What a wonderful time to live. Again, I can only speak for myself. I hope you read this bood and see how it became a love story for all three of us. The love of the truth, even if it is only ours. I hope it will become your love story. Everything will then change. Slowly, but it will. dp
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