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In ‘Human Forever,’ James Poulos Declares War On The Digital Age

 

James Poulos' book, 'Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War,' warns that we are already becoming cyborgs and we will pay for our digital dependence with our souls.

 

The editor of The American Mind has declared war. If his new book doesn’t shake you awake, you were meant to be a machine.

 

The world has already ended. The “cyborg age” arrived so quietly, few people noticed. Each person now carries a permanent digital device in his palm. In the blink of an eye, all of us—from the developed world to the farthest backwaters—were turned into cyborgs.

 

The year 2021 will be remembered as Year Zero. The children born into this “digital catastrophe” will be known as the First Generation. Our only recourse is to teach them how to survive or help them discover means of survival under the “digital swarm” unleashed upon us.

 

This is the argument laid out in Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War, the latest book by James Poulos. If the premise sounds like science fiction, you haven’t been paying attention. As the powerful struggle for dominance, and the rest power through their lives, technology has seduced all our souls with little need of direct force.

 

Human Forever is a work of profound scholarship, conveyed with Straussian subtlety. Poulos’s narrative weaves together the finest minds to wrestle with technology’s impact: Marshall McLuhan, Norbert Wiener, Lewis Mumford, and David Deutsch, among others—including a superb confrontation with the posthuman mutant Benjamin Bratton.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/19/in-human-forever-james-poulos-declares-war-on-the-digital-age/