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11
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4/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
David Sax
Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Date:
November 15, 2022
David Sax points out that the onset of the pandemic instantly gave us the digital universe we'd spent so long anticipating. In chapters exploring work, school, religion, and more, this book asks pointed questions: Is our future inevitably digital?
What The Reviewers Say
Moan-ifesto about the particular woes of quarantine for an upper-middle-class parent of young children.
Provocative.
The author relies on (virtual) interviews throughout, synthesizing the views of academics, other authors, and his suburban peers. This creates a pop-psych feel to the text, rendered in an approachable, witty style punctuated with personal asides poking fun at his own relative privilege during the pandemic. Deft, colorful discussion focused more on social prescriptions than on specific, tangible analog things..
