The Smartphone Society
Of course, things have not quite worked out this way. As the late nineteenth-century French sociologist Émile Durkheim perceived, the flipside of free-floating autonomy is anomie — a society without any authoritative norms. Pried from closed communities, many people suffer from pathologies of isolation and purposelessness. Family breakdown, drug ad
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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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new technologies have regularly sparked visions of impending dehumanization and societal collapse.
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