Time and Space in the Internet Age

by Stephen Kern

This book analyzes how new technologies transformed life and thought between two periods, 1880-1920 and 1980-2020, with a focus on temporal experiences of past, present, future and the spatial experiences of form, distance, and direction.

The signature contrast is between experiences of time and space transformed by the telephone in the earlier period and the Internet in the later period along with other sharp contrasts: the sinking of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032739800
• ISBN13: 9781032739809
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages