New PDF release: Thumbelina: The Culture and Technology of Millennials

By Michel Serres,Daniel W. Smith

The name of this well timed and thought-provoking ebook, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending textual content messages to their associates on their shrewdpermanent telephones. Michel Serres, considered one of France's most vital dwelling intellectuals, makes use of this snapshot to get at anything a ways broader: that people are shaped and formed by way of applied sciences, and that with the arrival of pcs, clever telephones, and the net, a brand new human is being born.

These new people beings are our children—thumbelina (petite poucette) and tom thumb (petit poucet)—but applied sciences were altering so speedy that oldsters scarcely understand their youngsters. Serres files this cultural revolution, arguing that there were a number of comparable revolutions long ago: from oral cultures to cultures fascinated about analyzing and writing; the appearance of the printing press; and now the advanced adjustments caused by means of the recent info technologies—changes which are happening at an sped up velocity and that impact us all.

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