The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World

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The Extinction of Experience explores the way a broad range of technologies, from the microwave to the sophisticated computer simulator, now influence our everyday choices-what we eat, how we educate our children, how we get to and from work, and how we spend our leisure time. It is about one of the defining challenges of our age- how to live in the real world, with all of its messy physical realities, unmediated Daily intimacy with the physical world recedes, little by little, at the same time that the worlds we access through the screen grow exponentially. More and more, we know our world through information about it rather than experience with it. And it is changing who we are. The Extinction of Experience is a book about this transformation.

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A timely and insightful call to reclaim our humanity -- Evan Selinger, Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
Wonderful ... Not merely a warning against algorithmic control of our lives, but, more essentially, an encouraging guidebook to the recovery of personal experience in all its manifold forms. The Extinction of Experience reconnects us with our own lives in marvellous ways -- Alan Jacobs, author of Breaking Bread with the Dead

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Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a columnist for Commentary magazine, senior editor at the New Atlantis and fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advance Studies in Culture. She lives in Washington, DC.