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Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans
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Dan Turello's Connection argues that technology, understood expansively from clothing to AI, affects human relationships, agency, and embodiment; he draws on medieval history and contemporary examples to show recurring tech anxieties.
Turello suggests reclaiming human agency amid technological determinism by practicing mindful use of tools and valuing lived, embodied experience.
He traces historical backlashes — from St. Francis's rejection of commercial mechanisms to Dante's nostalgia — to show continuity in responses to new technologies.
The book blends cultural history, photography, and philosophical reflection to propose practical and existential ways technology can make us better humans.
It invites readers to engage communally with ideas and recover deeper attention and memory in an age of rapid technological change.
Turello suggests reclaiming human agency amid technological determinism by practicing mindful use of tools and valuing lived, embodied experience.
He traces historical backlashes — from St. Francis's rejection of commercial mechanisms to Dante's nostalgia — to show continuity in responses to new technologies.
The book blends cultural history, photography, and philosophical reflection to propose practical and existential ways technology can make us better humans.
It invites readers to engage communally with ideas and recover deeper attention and memory in an age of rapid technological change.
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Was St. Francis of Assisi the First Silicon Valley Critic? Dan Turello on 800-Years of Tech Anxiety
