World Without Mind

A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture - and what we can do to fight their influence

Informationen zum Autor Franklin Foer is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a fellow at the New America Foundation. For seven years, he edited The New Republic magazine.He is the author of How Football Explains the World , which has been translated into 27 languages and won a National Jewish Book Award. He has been called one of America's 'most influential liberal journalists' by The Daily Beast . He lives in Washington, D.C. Klappentext A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture - and what we can do to fight their influence Four titanic corporations are now the most powerful gatekeepers the world has ever known. We shop with Amazon, socialise on Facebook, turn to Apple for entertainment, and rely on Google for information. They have conquered our culture and set us on a path to a world without private contemplation or autonomous thought: a world without mind. In this book, Franklin Foer makes a passionate, deeply informed case for the need to restore our inner lives and reclaim our intellectual culture before it is too late. At stake is nothing less than who we are, and what we will become. It is a message that could not be more timely. Zusammenfassung A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture and what we can do to fight their influence Four titanic corporations are now the most powerful gatekeepers the world has ever known. We shop with Amazon, socialise on Facebook, turn to Apple for entertainment, and rely on Google for information. They have conquered our culture and set us on a path to a world without private contemplation or autonomous thought: a world without mind. In this book, Franklin Foer makes a passionate, deeply informed case for the need to restore our inner lives and reclaim our intellectual culture before it is too late. At stake is nothing less than who we are, and what we will become. It is a message that could not be more timely. ...

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Franklin Foer is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a fellow at the New America Foundation. For seven years, he edited The New Republic magazine.He is the author of **How Football Explains the World, which has been translated into 27 languages and won a National Jewish Book Award. He has been called one of America's 'most influential liberal journalists' by The Daily Beast. He lives in Washington, D.C.