Digital Is Destroying Everything

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Every year, perhaps even every week, there is some new gadget, device, service, or other digital offering intended to make our lives easier, better, more fun, or more instantaneous—making it that much harder to question how anything digital can be bad for us. Digital has created some wonderful things and we can hardly imagine life without them. But digital—the most relentless social and economic juggernaut humanity has unleashed in centuries—is also destroying much we had taken for granted. And what is your place in this brave new world? In Digital Is Destroying Everything, futurist and digital marketing consultant Andrew Edwards tours the "blasted heath" digital is leaving behind and takes a fearless look at the troubled landscape that may lie ahead. The book is not, despite its title, a dystopian rant against all things digital and technological. Instead, expect to find a lively investigation into the ways digital has opened us to new and sometimes quite... Foreword by Rand SchulmanA Note on the Use of "Digital" in This Book1: Digital is Destroying Everything2: Crazy Train: Digital is Destroying the Music Industry3: The Bezos Bauble: Digital is Destroying the Newsprint Industry4: The Business Case: When Digital Destroys Digital5: Undigital, Unemployed: Digital is Destroying the Job Market6: The Lonely Screen: Digital is Destroying Human Interaction7: Campus-Killing: Digital is Destroying Education8: The Downtown Next Time: Digital is Destroying Urban Life in America9: Oversharing and Undercounting: Digital is Destroying Rational Discourse and the Democratic Process10: Books, Bath and Beyond: Digital is Destroying Retail11: Digital Has Destroyed Authoritarian Rule (or Has It)?12: Obsessive Compulsive: Digital is Destroying our Will to Create Anything Not Digital13: Digital is Destroying Financial Services14: Invaders From Earth: Digital is Destroying the Professions (and more)15: Lesser Pursuits Destroyed by Digital16: It's Worse Than You Thought: Digital is Destroying Privacy17: Maybe It's All Bullshit18: Don't Read This First