A review by gordin
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle

5.0

I can't say it's a good book, but "New Dark Age" raises questions so important and I enjoyed it so much that I feel necessary to rate it highly. Just like its subject – the interconnected cloud/network – it sprawls in multiple directions at once and doesn't present an easily discernible narrative for a moderately educated person like me, but reads more like a collection of thoughts and approaches inspired by a common underlying philosophy.
Because of this, the book will probably seem too basic for advanced techno-philosophical readers and for a completely unprepared person it will be too alarming to process and is likely to be rejected altogether.
But I personally enjoyed it, found a lot of areas and questions worth investigating and reading on further and can recommend it to anyone who considered themselves a technological optimist, but is ready to question that notion.