The Extinction of Experience: Christine Rosen on the Impact of Technology on Society
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Do we spend too much time looking into our screens and too little looking into human eyes? Christine Rosen on Uncommon Knowledge now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a senior editor at The New Atlantis, a regular contributor to Commentary magazine, and a co-host of the Daily Commentary podcast.
She holds a doctorate in history from Emory. Christine Rosen's most recent book, published this autumn, The Extinction of Experience, Being human in a disembodied world. Christine, welcome. Thanks for having me.
Christine, your argument. Let's lay out the basics of the argument. From the extinction of experience, I'm quoting here. Our understanding of experience has become disordered in ways large and small. More and more people create their own realities rather than live in the world around them.
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