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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. There is a healthier, wiser and more humane way. In this insightful reckoning with modern life and its acutely modern malady, Christine Rosen reveals the true cost of our digital age – and shows us how to return to the real world, while we still can. ‘Essential reading in a dislocated world’ Katherine May, author of Wintering ‘One of America’s best writers and thinkers’ Washington Examiner
Cover photograph: tourist, Lofoten Islands, Norway © Daniel González/Plainpicture
VINTAGE £12.99
Penguin Random House penguin.co.uk/vintage
I S B N 978-1-529-96703-6
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THE EXTINCTION OF EXPERIENCE Christine Rosen
‘A passionate case for the human experiences which are central to a truly vibrant and meaningful existence’ Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks
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