Extinction of Experience Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World
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Biografisk notat
Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a columnist for Commentary magazine, senior editor at the New Atlantis and fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advance Studies in Culture. She is the author of six books, including My Fundamentalist Education, which was chosen as a Washington Post Nonfiction Book of the Year. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Slate, Los Angeles Times, Politico and more. She lives in Washington, DC.Urges us to <b>reclaim</b> <b>the real-world experiences that make life worth living</b>
Guardian, *Books to Look Forward to in 2025*
<b>Illuminating</b>
Telegraph, *Best Books of 2025*
This book is not a Luddite manifesto ... The question becomes: how do we restore a healthier status quo? ... Rosen gives<b> a razor-sharp analysis of this modern malady, </b>capturing <b>with style</b> how convenience and efficiency have become the enemies of the good life
The Times
<b>Engaging </b>and <b>snappy </b>... A well-evidenced and well-principled defence of human experience ... <b>Where Rosen succeeds emphatically is in explaining the serious issues without simply blaming anyone</b> - a <b>radical</b> act in these matters
Telegraph
Technology is having pervasive effects on us all, effects which are hard to put into words. <b>Christine Rosen finds the words I've longed for</b>. <i>The Extinction of Experience</i> is <b>an extremely important book</b>, and its message all the more urgent as AI threatens to make everything effortless, frictionless, and disembodied .
- Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation,
A <b>fascinating </b>and <b>timely</b><b> </b>book about the essential real-world experiences we're watching vanish before our screen-addled eyes. Resisting the lure of nostalgia, but rejecting the glib assumption that more technology is always better, Christine Rosen makes <b>a passionate case for the face-to-face, embodied, analogue, unpredictable, unmediated life, and its centrality to a vibrant and truly meaningful human existence</b>
- Oliver Burkeman, author of Meditations for Mortals,
<b>Essential reading in a dislocated world</b>
- Katherine May, author of Wintering,
<i>The Extinction of Experience </i>is <b>a beautifully expressed ode to the vanishing components of life </b>that remain unplanned, unresearched, and unrecorded. <b>Rosen is an excellent guide</b>, explaining why there's no substitute for seeing, feeling, and touching the world directly
- Adam Alter, author of Irresistible,
Rosen has written <b>a passionate anatomy of what we lose when we relinquish real life</b> to machine-mediated activity. More than a eulogy, it is<b> an urgent reminder to value and defend real life</b>, with all its riskiness and rough edges, against the safe, smooth, screen-filtered reverie that promises so much more than it can encompass
- Timandra Harkness, author of Technology is Not the Problem,
[Rosen] is <b>one of America's best writers and thinkers</b>
Washington Examiner
<b>Important </b>... an <b>urgent </b>interrogation of our increasing reliance on digitally mediated experience
Lit Hub
A useful<b> </b>prod to conscience [and] <b>a thoughtful and timely reminder that it's not too late to retrieve what we miss</b>
Wall Street Journal
Rosen’s book is <b>a meditation on what it means to be a fulfilled human being </b>in a world defined by technology. She does <b>a very good job </b>of drawing our attention to the experiences we’re losing and making the case that we should resist these losses
Vox
A roving investigation of the threat technology poses to our social and cultural norms ... But <b>don't mistake this book for a hand-wringing polemic</b> against change; rather, with each disappearing ritual, Rosen highlights the deeper loss to the human psyche ... <i>The Extinction of Experience </i>is <b>a compelling reminder that 'go touch grass' is more than just an internet punchline - in fact, it's a human imperative</b>
Esquire
<b>Engaging</b> and <b>impeccably researched</b>, this book serves as an<b> important </b>reminder that survival during this time of accelerated global change will depend on humanity’s willingness to impose intelligent, self-preserving limitations. <b>Timely, well-informed reading</b>
Kirkus
A <b>civilised </b>and<b> scholarly writer</b>
- Steven Poole, Guardian
A compendium of <b>engrossing</b>ly dystopian cautionary tales
Washington Post
<b>Feisty</b> … <b>Fascinating</b> … One of the pleasures of this book is learning what <b>an engagingly intrepid researcher </b>Rosen is … <i>The Extinction of Experience</i> is <b>an essential book for our time</b>
Commentary Magazine
Christine Rosen<b> joins a growing wave of writers like Jonathan Haidt</b> in <i>The Anxious Generation</i> <b>arguing against the unintended consequences of technology</b>. She makes the case that our algorithm-led lives aren't just unnatural, they're bad for us
Evening Standard
<b>I inhaled it .</b>.. In the strongest possible terms .. go and order the book ... You will look at your phone differently when you are finished with <i>The Extinction of Experience</i>
- Hugh Hewitt,
Human experiences are disappearing. The Extinction of Experience is a philosophical defence of what makes us human – and a powerful call to reclaim ourselves in a digital world.
'Fascinating and timely' OLIVER BURKEMAN
'An extremely important book' JONATHAN HAIDT
'Essential reading' KATHERINE MAY
* A TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF 2025 * A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2025 *
Social media, gaming and dating apps have usurped in-person interaction; handwriting is no longer prioritised in schools; and emotion is sooner expressed through likes and emojis than face-to-face conversations. With headphones in and eyes trained on our phones, even boredom has been obliterated. But, as Christine Rosen expertly shows, when we embrace this mediated life and conform to the demands of the machine, we risk becoming more machine-like ourselves.
There is another way. For too long we’ve accepted the idea that change always means better. But rapidly developing technology isn’t neutral – it’s ambivalent, and capable of enormous harm. To improve our well-being, help future generations flourish and recover our shared humanity, we must become more mindful users of technology and more discerning of how it uses us.
From TikTok challenges and algorithms to surveillance devices and conspiracy culture, The Extinction of Experience reveals the human crisis of our digital age – and urges us to return to the real world, while we still can.
'Christine Rosen is one of America's best writers and thinkers' WASHINGTON EXAMINER
The Extinction of Experience explores the way a broad range of technologies, from the microwave to the sophisticated computer simulator, now influence our everyday choices—what we eat, how we educate our children, how we get to and from work, and how we spend our leisure time.