Hey, I’ve got this really cool idea: let’s stay up ALL NIGHT! Like all
adolescents, the IT industry has discovered 24-hour living and thinks it
invented the idea. Leon Kreitzman is its guru with The 24 Hour Society, an
enthusiastic vision of a world in which we work in call centres and relax in
24-hour “eatertainment” (sic) establishments. Silliest statement comes from BT’s
futurologist, Peter Cochrane. Writing the foreword from a Californian poolside,
he gloats: “Only five years ago this would have been impossible.” Tosh.
Journalists have been doing it for decades. Published by Profile, 拢16.99,
ISBN 1861971044.
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