Just bought a web of our own making and lost in the cosmos. I will try to relay a young persons perspective to both books when I finished reading them. Hopefully this will give me the necessary context to realize and articulate perfectly what I have been experiencing my whole life in relationship to technology that I have let guide my decision making.
Hopefully I can finish these books within a couple months it took me a while to completely understand ideas have consequences and language is sermonic, I hope these two keep the same tempo.
Excellent review -- compact and very informative. I read the book twice -- once cover-to-cover nonstop, the second time slower with pen in hand. I'll be passing this on to those I know who haven't yet bit the bullet. It's a challenging book no doubt, but nowhere near indecipherable, and provides solid philosophical heft to the more "popular" arguments of Postman, Carr, etc.
Thanks for recommending it, Rob. And you're 100% correct--it is nowhere near indecipherable.
I'm also (slowly) reading Zuboff, per your recommendation. It isn't as heavy hitting as Barba-Kay, but it still gives an amazing narrative of the rise of Google.
Just bought a web of our own making and lost in the cosmos. I will try to relay a young persons perspective to both books when I finished reading them. Hopefully this will give me the necessary context to realize and articulate perfectly what I have been experiencing my whole life in relationship to technology that I have let guide my decision making.
Hopefully I can finish these books within a couple months it took me a while to completely understand ideas have consequences and language is sermonic, I hope these two keep the same tempo.
Also, as a fair warning, some of Percy's Lost is graphic. There's some obscene language, in particular, and some suggestive themes.
Nevertheless, the book is still my favorite. Despite having been written in the 80s, it is ever-so-relevant today.
You're the man, Lucas.
Excellent review -- compact and very informative. I read the book twice -- once cover-to-cover nonstop, the second time slower with pen in hand. I'll be passing this on to those I know who haven't yet bit the bullet. It's a challenging book no doubt, but nowhere near indecipherable, and provides solid philosophical heft to the more "popular" arguments of Postman, Carr, etc.
Thanks for recommending it, Rob. And you're 100% correct--it is nowhere near indecipherable.
I'm also (slowly) reading Zuboff, per your recommendation. It isn't as heavy hitting as Barba-Kay, but it still gives an amazing narrative of the rise of Google.
What else are you reading nowadays?
Not a bad call, at all. Let me check the price and see if it's worth juggling two balls.
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Thanks for the review. Well done. Sounds like a challenging read. I'll stick with Postman's lucid insights for now.
Why not do both?