{"product_id":"the-digital-revolution","title":"The Digital Revolution: Loss of Self and Humanity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Digital Revolution: Loss of Self and Humanity \u003c\/em\u003eexplores how digital algorithms reshape our minds, lives, and society and offers a powerful call to reclaim time, attention, and humanity in an AI-driven world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital algorithms are reshaping our minds and lives, trading convenience for a loss of self, agency, connection, and humanity. \u003cem\u003eThe Digital Revolution, \u003c\/em\u003ebased on more than sixty years of research across multiple fields—including psychology, technology, and philosophy—pursues a holistic approach to answering the question of how digitization affects us and our relation to the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Digital Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader on an unexpected journey, starting from the great tech revolutions of the early twentieth century and the invention of the first modern computers in the post-World War II era to inside our very own minds, exploring the neural mechanisms of addiction, altered states of consciousness, and age-old questions around perception versus reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, despite accelerated digital connectivity and access to information, we feel lonelier, adrift in an era that consumes our time and attention. By college, most young people have already spent tens of thousands of hours on screens, immersed in a silent Digital Revolution that has quietly established a subversive foothold in our previously analog lives. You want to put down your phone, but you can’t. You want to quit social media, yet you vacillate. You want to read a book but keep picking up your phone instead. You feel like time is slipping away. These devices promise to save us time and make life more convenient, but all they do is keep us busy—and not with the tasks we want to do. Though we sense the negative impact, breaking free is difficult.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite clear evidence of harm, the people most affected—parents, teachers, children, and adolescents—lack accessible information on this topic. Drawing on George’s long career as a philosopher and educator, this book offers insights from personal lived experience, tracing technological shifts from the 1930s to today. It aims to empower readers to become intentional participants in this revolution, reclaiming time, connection, and self-awareness. As AI is becoming increasingly dominant in shaping our daily lives, professional endeavors, and social interactions, \u003cem\u003eThe Digital Revolution \u003c\/em\u003eis both a warning and a guide to conscious change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Digital Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e seeks not only to understand this development—what is “artificial intelligence” and how should we understand its role in our lives?—but also suggests how we can maintain human control in a world where digital algorithms set the tone and the pace of work, leisure, communication, consumption, and so much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Eastman\u003c\/strong\u003e, now in his mid-nineties, has witnessed an analog world transformed into a digital world and has developed a lifelong interest in human freedom. Since the 1960s and 1970s, George Eastman has been investigating the effects of technology on our psychology, education, and behavior. George holds a Doctor of Education (1963) from Harvard, where he studied philosophy, linguistics, and social relations; and a PhD in Clinical Psychology (1974) from New York University, where he focused on game and decision-making theories in the context of human freedom and psychotherapy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThroughout his long and multifaceted career, George has conducted original research and published across disciplines in educational and philosophical journals, taught thousands of students across multiple universities, founded the Institute of Media Research, and supported over 7,500 clinical patients. This lifelong interest in our humanness and human freedom is the foundation of \u003cem\u003eThe Digital Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e. For more information, visit his website: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eastmandigitalrevolution.com\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.eastmandigitalrevolution.com\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIntroduction: Analog to Digital\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat is a Revolution?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eHow Did We Get Here?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWho Are We?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat Drives Us?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe Brain, Neuroplasticity and Addiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eVast Experiments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat is AI?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAI Applications\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat is Real?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat is to be Done?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe Digital Revolution\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44906722132061,"sku":"9781945335655","price":33.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/TheDigitalRevolutionLossofSelfandHumanity.jpg?v=1789740246","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-digital-revolution","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}