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The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World

byChristine Rosen

Christine Rosen examines what happens when digital convenience replaces activities once rooted in physical presence, direct attention, and shared public space. She considers remote work, online friendship, navigation, shopping, education, entertainment, and automated service, asking what skills and forms of knowledge fade when experience is mediated by screens. The book avoids simple nostalgia while challenging the assumption that frictionless technology is always progress. Rosen argues that embodied encounters cultivate judgment, patience, independence, and community, and that preserving them requires conscious choices about which conveniences people are willing to refuse.

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

2024-09-10

Format

Hardcover

Pages

272

ISBN

9780393241716