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A review by bookends_68
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle
4.0
An incredibly detailed analysis on the expansion of technology and how it messes us up, basically.
I found this book through the author's TED talk about the horrors of children's YouTube, and it's still the greatest TED talk I've ever seen, so the most informative chapter of this book for me was the one that covered that in more detail. (I am now even more terrified of YouTube)
What I also found interesting was the sheer amount of links this book made between so many topics I'd vaguely considered to be related (especially for topics like climate change). This book feels like a great jumping off point to read deeper into a whole bunch of different historical events and current scandals that I'd never even heard of before picking this up.
I found this book through the author's TED talk about the horrors of children's YouTube, and it's still the greatest TED talk I've ever seen, so the most informative chapter of this book for me was the one that covered that in more detail. (I am now even more terrified of YouTube)
What I also found interesting was the sheer amount of links this book made between so many topics I'd vaguely considered to be related (especially for topics like climate change). This book feels like a great jumping off point to read deeper into a whole bunch of different historical events and current scandals that I'd never even heard of before picking this up.