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Connection
How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans
Series: No Limits
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"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....
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See morePutting 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.
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"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 dehumanising force, a chief culprit in everything from mass commercialisation to environmental crisis through the potential collapse of civilisation. 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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Connection
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Connection
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9780231220156
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 March 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Illustration: 2 b&w photographs
Audience: Tertiary education
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Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Dan Turello is a writer, cultural historian, and photographer. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Psyche, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others, as well as in scholarly journals. He is a Technology and Humanity Fellow at the Center for the Future of AI, Mind & Society at Florida Atlantic University.
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