Present Shock

Bol

People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this "now" is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.

Bol Partner

An award-winning author explores how the world works in our age of "continuous now." According to Rushkoff, "presentism" is the new ethos of a society that's always on, in real time, updating live. He shows how this trend is both disorienting and exhilarating.