The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
Event description
- Free
- Open to the public
Technology has colonized nearly every public and private space, and most of us spend more time staring at screens than at our fellow human beings. How has this changed us? What crucial human experiences have we undermined in our pursuit of lives of greater convenience and efficiency? What important human skills have deteriorated as we outsource more of our decision-making to technology?
In The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World, Christine Rosen reveals the human crisis of our digital age and warns that when we embrace the mediated life and conform to the demands of the machine, we risk becoming more machine-like ourselves.
Join New America’s Fellows Program and Future Tense, a project of New America and Arizona State University that explores the impact of technology on society, as they welcome Dr. Rosen to discuss her timely book. The conversation will be moderated by Edward Finn, the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University and Future Tense’s Academic Director.
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Christine Rosen
Author, The Extinction of Experience
Future Tense Fellow & New America Fellow, 2014
Sr. Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Dr. Edward Finn Moderator
Founding Director of ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination
Future Tense Academic Director