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The Extinction of Experience
- Author
- Christine Rosen
- Narrator
- Suzie Althens
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 23 January 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments, Sociology, Cultural studies, Impact of science and technology on society, Social and political philosophy, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Technology: general issues, Human–computer interaction
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Brought to you by Penguin.
The Extinction of Experience reveals the true cost of our digital age – and shows us how to return to the real world, while we still can.
Human experiences are disappearing.
Community is now found online; schools prioritise typing; and with headphones in and eyes glued to our phones, we’ve even obliterated boredom. Convenient and entertaining, certainly, but with each technological embrace we risk becoming more machine-like ourselves.
In this insightful reckoning with modern life and its acutely modern malady, Christine Rosen leads us toward a healthier, wiser and more humane way.
‘A passionate case for the human experiences which are central to a truly vibrant and meaningful existence’ OLIVER BURKEMAN
'Christine Rosen finds the words I've longer for ... an extremely important book' JONATHAN HAIDT
'Illuminating ... well-argued and well-principled' TELEGRAPH, BEST BOOK OF 2025
'Essential reading in a dislocated world' KATHERINE MAY
'Razor-sharp' THE TIMES
'Christine Rosen is one of America's best writers and thinkers' WASHINGTON EXAMINER
© Christine Rosen 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Critics Review
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Urges us to reclaim the real-world experiences that make life worth living
Guardian, *Books to Look Forward to in 2025*
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Illuminating
Telegraph, *Best Books of 2025*
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This book is not a Luddite manifesto ... The question becomes: how do we restore a healthier status quo? ... Rosen gives a razor-sharp analysis of this modern malady, capturing with style how convenience and efficiency have become the enemies of the good life
The Times
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Engaging and snappy ... A well-evidenced and well-principled defence of human experience ... Where Rosen succeeds emphatically is in explaining the serious issues without simply blaming anyone - a radical act in these matters
Telegraph
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Technology is having pervasive effects on us all, effects which are hard to put into words. Christine Rosen finds the words I've longed for. The Extinction of Experience is an extremely important book, and its message all the more urgent as AI threatens to make everything effortless, frictionless, and disembodied .
Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation
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A fascinating and timely book about the essential real-world experiences we're watching vanish before our screen-addled eyes. Resisting the lure of nostalgia, but rejecting the glib assumption that more technology is always better, Christine Rosen makes a passionate case for the face-to-face, embodied, analogue, unpredictable, unmediated life, and its centrality to a vibrant and truly meaningful human existence
Oliver Burkeman, author of Meditations for Mortals
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Essential reading in a dislocated world
Katherine May, author of Wintering
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The Extinction of Experience is a beautifully expressed ode to the vanishing components of life that remain unplanned, unresearched, and unrecorded. Rosen is an excellent guide, explaining why there's no substitute for seeing, feeling, and touching the world directly
Adam Alter, author of Irresistible
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Rosen has written a passionate anatomy of what we lose when we relinquish real life to machine-mediated activity. More than a eulogy, it is an urgent reminder to value and defend real life, with all its riskiness and rough edges, against the safe, smooth, screen-filtered reverie that promises so much more than it can encompass
Timandra Harkness, author of Technology is Not the Problem
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[Rosen] is one of America's best writers and thinkers
Washington Examiner
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Details
- Author
- Christine Rosen
- Narrator
- Suzie Althens
- Duration
- 8 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 January 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529953923
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments, Sociology, Cultural studies, Impact of science and technology on society, Social and political philosophy, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Technology: general issues, Human–computer interaction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.The Extinction of Experience reveals the true cost of our digital age – and shows us how to return to the real world, while we still can.Human experiences are disappearing.Community is now found online; schools prioritise typing; and with headphones in and eyes glued to our phones, we’ve even obliterated boredom. Convenient and entertaining, certainly, but with each technological embrace we risk becoming more machine-like ourselves.In this insightful reckoning with modern life and its acutely modern malady, Christine Rosen leads us toward a healthier, wiser and more humane way.‘A passionate case for the human experiences which are central to a truly vibrant and meaningful existence’ OLIVER BURKEMAN'Christine Rosen finds the words I've longer for ... an extremely important book' JONATHAN HAIDT'Illuminating ... well-argued and well-principled' TELEGRAPH, BEST BOOK OF 2025'Essential reading in a dislocated world' KATHERINE MAY'Razor-sharp' THE TIMES'Christine Rosen is one of America's best writers and thinkers' WASHINGTON EXAMINER© Christine Rosen 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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