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The promise of liberation from drudgery quickly becomes liberation from purpose.

The negative effects of digital poison can, as documented by Haidt, cause a sort of phantom anxiety and depression for an entire generation.

The world of books is tacitly conceived of as a homey yet elevated sphere analogous perhaps to Tolkien’s Shire. How did books become what Joel Miller calls “the forgotten technology”?

What made the Isle of Pines an instance of regression is being sold to us as progress

Leisure is not entertainment, play, or a chance to catch your breath in order to return to work restored.

Phillips and Pauling help us to consider new emerging technologies and how we can avoid becoming cyborgs living off grubs and gruel.

Technology may assist the surgeon, illuminate the astronomer’s field, or console a mother in her sorrow. Yet it cannot give the soul the perfection it longs for.

The right kind of literature has the power to make the immediate visible to us once again.

One of the most curious things about raising two boys seventeen years apart is the divide I feel in their digital generations.

Perhaps the choice not to have a computer is more a choice not to play pretend.

We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.

We have long drawn a dividing line between technology and humans, imbuing one with ethical responsibility and treating the other as merely contingent— therefore, technologies are “neutral” and it’s simply…

Chuck dreams of overcoming his allergy so he can reenter normal society. We reject the status quo because we want something better for our kids.

Skidelsky’s expertise is on full display as he tells the story of the impact of machines on the human condition.

We live under the impression that we can do for the human community and the individual human soul what physicists have done with the atom.

It's entirely possible that many will give up human relationships, turning instead to the safety and predictability of technology, like an AI companion

Over the decades, I suppose I learned a lot from podcasts; plenty of facts and all the “sides” to stories. Very little of those things seem to matter to me…

Join Ben Christenson and others for a discussion with Clare Morell.

Similarly, I believe that most people can tell the difference between ugly and beautiful buildings.

Bilbro’s book is a careful study through profound literary texts about how we live in a world that has no patience for careful study through profound literary texts.

There’s a type of guy, sometimes they're Silicon Valley guys, sometimes they're just tech bros, sometimes they're environmentalists who have lost their minds

If classical schools insist on banning AI in all forms, their kids will be left behind.

And Robin and I really hope that this book can be part of that movement to help people get outside the Machine, throw sand in its gears, and live as…

To rush AI into the classroom or into daily life is to put student well-being at stake. And as Kingsnorth reminds us, refusal to accept certain forms of technology can…