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 Data
Smog:
Surviving the Information Glut.(c)1997 by David Shenk.
Reprinted by arrangement with HarperSanFrancisco, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers.
ISBN: 0060187018, 288 pages, US$24.00.
Recently translated into Japanese, Data Smog is appearing in
bookstores as High-tech Kashokusho. Published by Hayakawa Publishing,
Inc. Translated by Akira Kurahone. ISBN 4-15-208177-5.
The Internet, e-commerce, and telecommunications get all the press,
and indeed take up major sections of this publication. Opportunities,
benefits, rewards, and growth are words usually associated with these
technologies. But what about the cost? What price, convergence? Computing
Japan offers its readers an excerpt from David Shenks' bestseller,
Data Smog, recently released in its Japanese-language translation.
Originally published in 1997, Data Smog struck a nerve, and is
still getting substantial media coverage in the States, some 20 months
after it hit the bookstores. Are we smothering ourselves in data? Are
we poisoning society with useless information? Is technology boon or
bane, or somewhere in between? See http://www.computingjapan.com/magazine/issues/1999/feb99/Interview.html
for an interview with the author.
Click
here to read an excerpt of Data Smog.
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