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A review by dean_issov
The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland
funny
reflective
fast-paced
2.0
The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present is a short book that reads like an email from the future; illustrated by 30 unique artists, this visual experience will show you the future of humanity and how much technology and the internet might ruin the way we live our day-to-day lives. The author also gives us newly invented words that describe how we truly feel today in this digital age.
Personally, I find this book really laughable, and it's not because I disagree with what the author is trying to say (don't get addicted to the internet, go touch some grass) but it's just because of how it's presented. This book felt like a bad episode of "Black Mirror" or "Love, Death + Robots"; I enjoyed the invented words the most, but the stories that was shown felt like it was either trying to scare us or trying a bit too hard to look deep and meaningful but instead just came across like a sci-fi story that a 15 year old boy published on Wattpad (like that "Todd" story near the end, nice try).
Overall, this book just didn't work for me, a lot of people have been saying how 'mind-blowing' and 'phenomenal' this is but I just see non of that if I'm being honest; maybe it's just me and maybe it'll feel different for you, who knows, you should still give it a try.
Personally, I find this book really laughable, and it's not because I disagree with what the author is trying to say (don't get addicted to the internet, go touch some grass) but it's just because of how it's presented. This book felt like a bad episode of "Black Mirror" or "Love, Death + Robots"; I enjoyed the invented words the most, but the stories that was shown felt like it was either trying to scare us or trying a bit too hard to look deep and meaningful but instead just came across like a sci-fi story that a 15 year old boy published on Wattpad (like that "Todd" story near the end, nice try).
Overall, this book just didn't work for me, a lot of people have been saying how 'mind-blowing' and 'phenomenal' this is but I just see non of that if I'm being honest; maybe it's just me and maybe it'll feel different for you, who knows, you should still give it a try.