The age of missing information

Bill McKibben

Plume, May 6, 1993 - Family & Relationships - 261 pages

After watching more than 1,700 hours of television--the one-day output of the Fairfax, Virginia, cable system--and spending a weekend in the woods, the author argues that television separates us from more significant sources of knowledge. Reprint.

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Review: The Age of Missing Information

User Review  - Magdelanye - Goodreads

Reading this book was rather like listening to a symphony composed in different keys,an elegaic bflat minor interspersed with bursts of jangling gsharp major,drawing on techniques of different ...

Review: The Age of Missing Information

User Review  - Cheryl - Goodreads

Note to self: Have yet to read, but notes I jotted say a book entitled 'Painted Desert' by Frederick Barthelme parallels this work of McKibben's.

Contents

• II: 3
• III: 8
• IV: 37

About the author

Bill McKibben grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. He was president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper in college. Immediately after college he joined the New Yorker magazine as a staff writer, and wrote much of the "Talk of the Town" column from 1982 to early 1987. After quitting this job, he soon moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006. His next book, The Age of Missing Information, was published in 1992. It is an account of an experiment: McKibben collected everything that came across the 100 channels of cable tv on the Fairfax, Virginia system (at the time among the nation's largest) for a single day. He spent a year watching the 2,400 hours of videotape, and then compared it to a day spent on the mountaintop near his home. This book has been widely used in colleges and high schools, and was reissued in 2006. McKibben's latest book is entitled, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Bill currently resides with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and his daughter, Sophie in Ripton, Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. 030

Bibliographic information

• Title: The age of missing information
• Author: Bill McKibben
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Plume, 1993
• ISBN: 0452269806, 9780452269804
• Length: 261 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; Nature; Nature / General; Performing Arts / Television / General; Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Philosophy of nature; Political Science / General; Popular culture; Popular culture - United States; Popular culture/ United States; Social Science / Media Studies; Social Science / Popular Culture; Social Science / Sociology / General; Television broadcasting; Television broadcasting - Social aspects - United States; Television broadcasting/ Social aspects/ United States