Home › Books › The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human …
The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World
by
21/99
Critics
19/99
Readers
n/a
Scholars
27/99
Rating
15/99
Volume
5/99
Rating
33/99
Volume
—
Sign in to add to your shelf, rate, or review this book.
About This Book
Bestselling culture writer David Sax lays out the case against a false digital utopia—and for a more human future In The Future Is Analog , David Sax points out that the onset of the pandemic instantly gave us the digital universe we'd spent so long anticipating. Instant communication, online shopping, virtual everything. It didn't take long to realize how awful it was to live in this promised future. We craved real experiences, relationships, and spaces and got back to real life as quickly and often as we could. In chapters exploring work, school, religion, and more, this book asks pointed questions: Is our future inevitably digital? Can we reject the downsides of digital technology without rejecting change? Can we innovate not for the sake of productivity but for the good of our social and cultural lives? Can we build a future that serves us as humans, first and foremost? This is a manifesto for a different kind of change. We can spend our creativity and money on building new gadgets—or we can spend them on new ways to be together and experience the world, to bake bread, and climb mountains. All we need is the clarity to choose which future we want.
Preview
Reviews
"With moving anecdotes...Sax presents a solid case that technology should keep the 'real world front and center.' This up-close look at the costs of digital convenience delivers."
"This creates a pop-psych feel to the text, rendered in an approachable, witty style punctuated with personal asides poking fun at his own relative privilege during the pandemic."
"A brand extension writ antsy, it also seems to have suffered from an automated spellchecker."
Reader Reviews
0 reviewsSign in to write a review.
No reader reviews yet. Be the first!