Left to their own devices : how digital natives are reshaping the American dream

Albright, Julie M., 1962- (Author).

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American Dream.

ISBN: 9781633884441
Physical Description 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.

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Left to Their Own Devices : How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream

by Albright, Julie M.

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Left to Their Own Devices : How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Foreword Thomas Dolby	p. 9
	Acknowledgments	p. 11
	Introduction	p. 13
	New York City, Mid-Morning. The Uptown 5 from Brooklyn	p. 13
1	Silicon Valley: The Hacker Hotel	p. 20
2	St. Barts, the Untethered Workforce, and "Microlives"	p. 24
	Triad of Technological Immersion	p. 30
Chapter 1	Becoming Tethered: The American Dream	p. 35
	May 8, 1945. 10 Downing Annex, London	p. 35
	The Turning Point	p. 41
	New York, Cafe Zanzibar	p. 41
	Keeping Up	p. 43
	The Golden Age of the American Dream	p. 45
	The Wolves of Wall Street and the Fall of the American Dream	p. 51
	The Pull Factor of the American Dream	p. 55
Chapter 2	Synchronization And Harmonization	p. 61
	Synchronization and Harmonization	p. 68
	Tne Six Emerging Values of the Untethered	p. 73
1	Plug Life: The Desire for a Mediated World	p. 73
2	Experiences versus Acquisitions	p. 74
3	Transactors versus Owners	p. 76
4	Don't Care How, I Want It Now (or How Veruca Salt of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Was Just ahead of Her Time)	p. 78
5	Green Is Good	p. 79
6	Customizable World	p. 81
	The End of Trust and the Emergence of the Dark Army	p. 83
Chapter 3	The Untethered Adult	p. 95
	Greenwich Village, New York City	p. 95
	Untethered Relationships: "Because Choice"	p. 105
	The Internet as Other	p. 106
	Reshaping the American Dream	p. 109
	The Singularity Meets Her	p. 115
Chapter 4	Growing Up Digital	p. 121
	Living in the Now	p. 130
	Digital Dating: Teenage Wasteland	p. 133
	You Are Valid	p. 136
	Externality and Chasing Likes	p. 140
	Unintentionally Exposed	p. 143
	Imaginary Friends	p. 147
Chapter 5	Your Brain On Digital	p. 151
	January 14, 1967. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco	p. 151
	Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York	p. 156
	Recoding Our Operating Systems	p. 159
	The Sound of Silence	p. 163
	The No Latency Life	p. 168
	Blurring Map and Territory Online	p. 172
	The Virtual Mirror	p. 173
	The Empathy Gap	p. 177
	Tools 'R' Us?	p. 179
Chapter 6	Untethered From Nature	p. 183
	"The McRib Is Back!"	p. 183
	America's Best Idea	p. 193
	The Fountain of Life	p. 198
	InstaNature, or the Mediated Sublime	p. 203
	Fake Nature	p. 208
	Reconnecting with Nature	p. 211
	Rebalancing Nature and Culture	p. 217
Chapter 7	The Untethered Worker	p. 223
	The Platform Economy, Patchwork Careers, and the End of Retirement	p. 227
	The Untethered Workplace	p. 238
	The Rise of the Fake Workforce	p. 241
	The Untethered Economy	p. 249
Chapter 8	Untethered From The Body	p. 259
	New York City, Upper East Side. The Rectory	p. 259
	Civilizing the Body	p. 264
	Body Language in a Disembodied World	p. 271
	Digital Impacts on Analog Bodies	p. 279
	High Tech/High Touch	p. 282
Chapter 9	The Untethered World	p. 291
	Our Increasingly Untethered World	p. 299
	The Digital Panopticon	p. 302
	Powering the Untethered World	p. 307
	The Upsides of an Untethered World	p. 309
1	Global Learning, Philanthropy, and Employment	p. 309
2	Citizen Journalism	p. 310
3	Global Citizenship	p. 312
	Notes	p. 319

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