{Final Project

Julie Silk

{By Nick Bilton, 2010

I live in the future and here’s how it works: why your world, work & brain are being creatively disrupted

Topics Covered in the book

• Begins to explain how he himself doesn’t get the Sunday paper for the own company he works for

• Project Gutenberg and the Printing Press eventually led to form in social media, and the many different forms of it

• Distinguishing who we can trust and who we cannot trust on the internet

• Our brains are constantly changing along with the technological changes in our society

• Surgeons that played video games as a child actually improved their skills for performing surgeries

• The more we train our brains do something, the more it can do and understand (like a muscle)

• Multi-tasking phenomenon

In relation to our class

• Compares and contrasts the good and bad technology has in our society

• Explains how privacy should be taken seriously, and should be taken to drastic measures if needed

• How social media effects our daily lives (distractions, spreading information quickly)

• The importance of our digital print on the web• Nothing is private

I would recommend this book to one who is curious about what technology has done to impact our society. This book was extremely informative and never boring.