No Straight Lines eBook Alan Moore
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In No Straight Lines, Alan Moore argues that we have reached the nadir of the adaptive range of our industrialised world. Now faced with an unsustainable trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity, we have entered an era in which the rules we have previously organised our lives around no longer apply. Leaving us with both a design problem and a design challenge which we must urgently solve. By describing an entirely new way for true social, economic and organisational innovation to happen, No Straight Lines presents a revolutionary logic and an inspiring plea for a more human-centric world.
‘Alan Moore is a visionary, someone who takes concepts from many sources and detects the previously hidden relationship between them. He has a firm grasp of the changes which are reshaping our world, always pointing towards a more participatory, cooperative, reciprocal model of what our society might look like.’
Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, USC Annenberg School for Communication
‘Economic transactions and markets have warped perceptions to such a degree that most people fail to see what is important in life, even when it’s right in front of them. Alan Moore offers a vision that is at once more humane, more forward-thinking, and more realistic.’
Howard Rheingold, writer and critic
‘No Straight Lines reads like a road movie from the rise of the assembly line mentality to the fall of the Berlin wall and the growing emancipation of people throughout our world via information technologies. As a true designer, Alan carefully articulates the changes in our society and, page by page, distils a new form to understand our world. Be prepared to experience the unexpected since this book will create a virus of the mind.’
Arjan Postma, Research Director - FreedomLab future studies
No Straight Lines eBook Alan Moore
I had high expectations because I love the topic, but I must say I abandoned the book around page 98 or so, quite disappointed.I was hoping for a stronger background and more sound theories. Let me explain: I believe NSL is an okay book in its own merit, and yet it stretched too far in its ranging of subjects while at the same time being very thin when it comes to backing up some of the claims behind it. Case in point: a few times the trends that it was addressing were treated superficially, without proper background research, and talking about some issues in a way that did not give justice at all to what the issue really was about. E.g. I am familiar with participatory decision-making, and theory U, both mentioned in the book, and the way they are described in the book is simply misleading :/ So that makes me wonder of how much practical applicability are the ideas and the advice if the understanding of some basics of the issues is partial and/or flawed? Bear in mind, I am particularly demanding with books, and enjoy only books that are both able to explain in plain terms AND have strong scientific backing to their claims. It would be a good book to have an overview on a changing world, but don't expect much depth (imo) nor sound advice for working differently with this fast changing world.
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No Straight Lines eBook Alan Moore Reviews
It's refreshing to read a work which so clearly identifies technology as a cause and cure of the societal disruption that we are currently experiencing without degenerating into discussion of technological fetishism or an impending singularity. My biggest complement and main complaint (which, incidentally, makes this statement not so much nonlinear as downright quantum) is that Moore's downright encyclopedic with his anecdotes, examples, and citations. Every point he makes is thoroughly backed up, and his reference list has only served to increase the back log on my kindle (unforgivable! )
Having so many examples to present acts as a wonderful counterpoint to what little discussion there is outside of tech circles, which seems to be centered on how new technology is ruining "society" a child committing suicide after being cyberbullied (no one mentions the dozens who did so after being bullied the old fashioned way); twitter and facebook coordinated riots in London leading to discussion of censoring/monitoring both services (though everyone forgets Egypt and Tunisia...). I found the fact that Moore was able to synthesize so many concrete, successful examples of the positive impact of new technologies as well as to identify the underlying threads which bind such nominally disparate innovations quite buoying.
No Straight Lines is one of the most insightful books I've read recently. The author Alan Moore displays an understanding and insight of how our new multi-layered networked world is developing. A must-read!
I went into reading No Straight Lines (NSL) with a sense that I would come away mildly disrupted in terms of my thinking and activity. In terms of context, I've been pursuing a life that doesn't really have a pre-sent destination, while hearing more often than not that I need to take the detour that looks like the familiar from those who are on their "straighter and safer" paths. What I found as I read NSL is that if you aren't willing to find not just your unique voice (you > world) but also your unique steps (you + world), that you will continue in the straight thinking and activities which don't push life forward, but slow down the intertia that should be preogress.
My generation is described as the first in this modern age to have a near-guarantee of a worse quality of life. But, I think that's because we've not been taught or re-visioned how to think. NSL served as another reminder of the challenge to not just discover that unique road, but also bring others along for the ride as we'll only make it to a better future when we do it together.
I read this via , kind of wishing that the service was able to share in some of the conversations which happened with the live-book version. As such, even the reading started getting me along the lines of thinking that there are some readings, or at least parts of reading which should be shared and incite the kind of creative attitudes and projects that bend what's normal. At least how I finished NSL, if you haven't found a reason to disrupt something that you've done before, or disrupt your manner of living for where you are now, life won't have the sense of completition and snowballing that should make for a better world for all.
Its been a few weeks since I've finished, but I end this review not so much talking about the review, but its effects. If you are challenged with seeing your world as realistic as it has been portrayed to you. Then read this. NSL will be a unique, challenging, and change-inducing viewpoint that either you leave from reading excited to do what makes sense for living, or you ignore what makes sense for the life that isn't fulfilling much for anyone at all.
I've known Alan since we both presented as authors at SXSWi. We'd written books on "social media" and had secured speaking slots based on our respective works. I was really interested in what Alan had to say, and to compare his views with my own.
I was blown away.
Where my books are skills-oriented, Alan's provide foundational insight on what "social" really is, about what it means on a global scale and where we're all likely to be ten years on. (If we're lucky!) Talking with Alan and diving into No Straight Lines (I got a manuscript preview before purchasing a release copy) changed a lot of what I thought I knew. No Straight lines is an amazing look at the past, present and future as society (and the workplace!) is reshaped by social technology. Rote process replaced with collaboration, maximization of individual gain replaced by a collective that benefits all participants. Ultimately, No Straight lines is a book about the world we all wanted to live in The best part of it is that we still can.
I highly recommend this book, and sincerely appreciate the effort that Alan put into writing this.
Thank you, Alan.
I had high expectations because I love the topic, but I must say I abandoned the book around page 98 or so, quite disappointed.
I was hoping for a stronger background and more sound theories. Let me explain I believe NSL is an okay book in its own merit, and yet it stretched too far in its ranging of subjects while at the same time being very thin when it comes to backing up some of the claims behind it. Case in point a few times the trends that it was addressing were treated superficially, without proper background research, and talking about some issues in a way that did not give justice at all to what the issue really was about. E.g. I am familiar with participatory decision-making, and theory U, both mentioned in the book, and the way they are described in the book is simply misleading / So that makes me wonder of how much practical applicability are the ideas and the advice if the understanding of some basics of the issues is partial and/or flawed? Bear in mind, I am particularly demanding with books, and enjoy only books that are both able to explain in plain terms AND have strong scientific backing to their claims. It would be a good book to have an overview on a changing world, but don't expect much depth (imo) nor sound advice for working differently with this fast changing world.
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