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New Homo Sapiens: How Every Generation Was Forged by the Inventions They Could't Live Without

New Homo Sapiens: How Every Generation Was Forged by the Inventions They Could't Live Without

Chee, Chochoy

Paperback

General ReferenceGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN13: 9798183797367
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Every generation has been rewired by a tool it couldn't live without - and never saw the cost of until decades later.

Language gave humanity trust at scale, but cost us the certainty that any shared memory was true. Writing gave us civilisation-spanning knowledge, but cost us the discipline of total recall. The factory clock gave us productivity, but cost us our bodies' own rhythms. The smartphone gave us permanent connection, but cost us the tolerance for boredom that creativity quietly depends on.

Now it's happening again - faster, and closer to the core of what makes us human than ever before.

New Homo Sapiens traces eight inventions across fifty thousand years - from the first gossip around a campfire to AI companions in our pockets - to reveal a single, repeating pattern: every tool that frees the mind also reshapes it, and the bargain is never offered as a choice. It's discovered, usually a generation too late, as simply the way things are.

Across eight chapters, you'll explore:

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