“Our digital technologies aren’t politically
neutral. The young person who cannot or will not be alone, converse with
family, go out with friends, attend a lecture or perform a job without
monitoring her smartphone is an emblem of our economy’s leechlike attachment to
our very bodies. Digital technology is capitalism in hyperdrive, injecting its
logic of consumption and promotion, of monetization and efficiency, into every
waking minute.”—Novelist-essayist Jonathan Franzen, “Capitalism in Hyperdrive,”
in The End of the End of the Earth: Essays (2018)
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