Tyranny Of The Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age Book

A book everyone who lives in the "information age" should read. Eriksen presents the complications brought on by the technical innovations of the late twentieth century (and onwards), in a time when most people are concerned about how we can further proceed with our innovations. In order to describe our present(which he refers to as the "information age"), Eriksen describes the past, thus providing a good overview on what shaped the twentieth century, and why technology developed as it did.

Even though this book was written in 2001, it's still highly applicable to our present. If anything, the book might even appeal to more people today than it did back in 2001, regarding the huge rise of cellular use, laptops and technological devices in general. Interesting are also Eriksen's predictions on the comming decades, where one can say his succession rate is on about 50%(more or less). Some of his predictions can be described as rather unfortunate though, but they are nowhere near undermining the central points of the book. More than anything, they give you a good laugh.

It would be interesting to read a renovated version with added chapters on for instance social media and the rise of technology in schools, which would make this book even more relevant in our current day and age. Knowing Eriksen though, he probably has too many emails to send making it difficult to find the time to write a whole new chapter, not to mention re-publishing an entire book.