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Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans

Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans

Turello, Dan

Paperback

Series: No Limits

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0231220162
ISBN13: 9780231220163
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Thrilling and fun. From Aristotle and Dante to Bono and adrienne maree brown, Dan Turello takes us to a wonderland where technology meets ideas.
--Azar Nafisi, New York Times best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Technology gets a bad rap. It is accused of being a dehumanizing force, a chief culprit in everything from mass commercialization to environmental crisis through the potential collapse of civilization. In Connection, Dan Turello reflects on the origins and limitations of such views. He offers a philosophical and literary meditation on what technology is and can be, arguing that it provides surprising ways to strengthen and deepen what makes us human.

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture, this book traces the roots of our fascination with--and aversion to--technology. Turello shows how the moments that shaped Western views of technology offer perspective on our current predicaments, as figures such as St. Francis of Assisi and Dante grappled with problems that are strikingly reminiscent of the ones we face today. Challenging nostalgia for preindustrial innocence, he demonstrates that historically technology has enabled us to develop art, philosophy, religion, and culture. Today, technology can safeguard human creativity--if we choose self-awareness and community over consumption and exploitation. Wide-ranging and inviting, Connection makes a timely case for embodied experience in the age of AI.

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