Too Much Information
Or: Can Everyone Just Shut Up for a Moment, Some of Us Are Trying to Think
$33.99
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2015
Summary
Bestselling author Dave Gorman thinks we’re suffering from information overload. How much do we really pay attention to? What happens if you stop and try to take it all in? Dave intends to find out.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780091928506 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0091928508 |
| Author: | Dave Gorman |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Ebury Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 239g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 22mm |
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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 *
About The Author
Dave Gorman
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.
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