Raging Against the Experience Machine

December 17, 2024

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(The Dispatch) – Christine Rosen’s new book shows how modern technology simply lacks an essential human touch.

Would you choose to spend the rest of your life in the experience machine? When Nozick first asked this question to his students in the 1970s, the overwhelming majority answered by the negative. Today, half a century later, students often side with the experience machine over the real world.

In The Extinction of Experience, Christine Rosen, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that technology—especially digital technology—is responsible for this shift. (Read More)