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Book Hack
New Dark AgeBy James Bridle

In a Nutshell

James Bridle's New Dark Age examines humankind's widespread reliance upon technology and the dangers this poses to how we think, act, and survive.

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We're all looking at the world and seeing radically different things. And we have built ourselves a system that reinforces that effect, an automated populism that gives people what they want, all of the time.

James Bridle

Introduction

Technology is present in every aspect of our modern lives, and we rely upon it for practically everything. This, however, comes with serious consequences.

As our computers have become more capable, we have become less capable of understanding them.

James Bridle is a literary editor, writer, artist, technologist, and journalist who has contributed to WIRED, The Atlantic, and TEDx, among others.

In 2018, Bridle unpacked the 20th-century idea that technology can create solutions to any of humankind's problems in New Dark Age. The book examines this concept's failure in a modern world.

New Dark Age explores the ways in which technology hinders our ability to comprehend some of the issues we currently face.

Technology threatens us in many ways, but, if we learn to understand it, could it still hold the answers we need?

Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack

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    Technology is not making us smarter
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