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Too Much Information: Or: Can Everyone Just Shut Up for a Moment, Some of Us Are Trying to Think
Ebury Publishing
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Description for Too Much Information: Or: Can Everyone Just Shut Up for a Moment, Some of Us Are Trying to Think
Paperback. It's hard to imagine a world where anything you could possibly want to know about - and everything you don't even know you want to know about - isn't accessible 24-hours a day, seven days a week, with just a few taps of our fingers. But that world once existed. This book deals with this topic. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 248.
It's hard to imagine a world where anything you could possibly want to know about - and everything you don't even know you want to know about - isn't accessible 24-hours a day, seven days a week, with just a few taps of our fingers. But that world once existed. And Dave Gorman remembers it. He remembers when there were only three channels on TV. He remembers when mobile phones were the preserve of arrogant estate agents and yuppie twonks. And he remembers when you had to unplug your phone to plug the computer into the landline in order to use the (crippling slow) internet. Nowadays of course, the world is full of people trying to tell us things. So much so that we have taught our brains not to pay much attention. After all, click the mouse, tap the screen, flick the channel and it's on to the next thing. But Dave Gorman thinks it's time to have a closer look, to find out how much nonsense we tacitly accept. Suspicious adverts, baffling newspaper headlines, fake twitter, endless cat videos, insane TV shows where the presenters ask the same questions over and over. Can we even hear ourselves think over the rising din? Or is there just too much information?
Product Details
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
246g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780091928506
SKU
V9780091928506
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-33
About Ebury Publishing
Dave Gorman is an award-winning comedian, storyteller and writer. He has numerous TV writing credits and was part of the double BAFTA-winning team behind The Mrs Merton Show. His live shows have won many awards and he is the only performer to twice win the Jury Prize for Best One Person Show at the prestigious HBO US Comedy Arts Festival. He was the host of Genius, which ran for three series on Radio 4 and then two series on BBC2. He has appeared in numerous other TV shows, including Absolutely Fabulous, The Frank Skinner Show, Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His documentary film, America Unchained, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Austin Film Festival. His 2013 TV show, Modern Life Is Goodish, made for UKTV's Dave channel, saw him dissecting the foibles of modern life in six hour-long comic performances. It quickly established itself as the channel's most successful original programme that year and a further sixteen episodes have been commissioned for broadcast in 2014 and 2015. His ambition is to one day become a team captain on Call My Bluff. www.davegorman.com
Reviews for Too Much Information: Or: Can Everyone Just Shut Up for a Moment, Some of Us Are Trying to Think
In the study of modern miscellany Dave Gorman is the equivalent of a professor emeritus
Independent
Dave Gorman is funny and brilliant in equal measure
The Times
Gorman turns his astute, observational wit on the rampant information age in which we live
Daily Mail
Independent
Dave Gorman is funny and brilliant in equal measure
The Times
Gorman turns his astute, observational wit on the rampant information age in which we live
Daily Mail