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Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age is unavailable, but you can change that!

We’re being formed by our devices. Today’s digital technologies are designed to captivate our attention and encroach on our boundaries, shaping how we relate to time and space, to ourselves and others, even to God. Our natural longing for relationship makes us vulnerable to the “industrializing” effects of social media. While we enjoy the benefits of digital tech, many of us feel troubled with...

have each taken stark measures to abandon, block, or limit their personal access to the very platforms they helped make a success.5 Silicon Valley elder statesman and technologist Jaron Lanier had long remained optimistic about the social potential of computing but has since become dismayed by the exploitative direction that the digital industry has taken in catering to commercial demands. The title of his most recent book, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, doesn’t
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