Digital shock : confronting the new reality / Hervé Fischer ; translated by Rhonda Mullins.

Translation of: Le choc du numérique : essai.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A yo-yo universe -- Artificial intelligence and living computers -- The digital metaphor for the world -- The cyberworld : allegorical paradigm of a new civilization -- Are we losing our memory? -- Communication intoxication -- The Internet tower of Babel -- Generation net and Internet culture -- Digital arts, multimedia, and interactivity -- Artist-researchers and laboratories of the future -- The promises of convergence -- The libertarian and ultraliberal digital realm -- The digital angel -- Cash and digital economics -- Global utopia and digital apartheid -- Wired schools and virtual universities -- Cyberpathologies and cybertherapies -- Internet curiosities and follies -- Cyberviolence and cyberwar -- Electronic primitivism -- The magical click and the digital imagination -- The digital golden calf -- The thirty paradoxical laws of the digital.