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Damon Krukowski: The New Analog – Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World (Naomi Yang; The New Press)

Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 27 April 2017

WE HAVE ALWAYS been such suckers for the shiny new object, especially now, with digital technologies coming fast and furious at consumers' kryptonite – the compulsive desire to own the latest and greatest. Whether or not the shiny and new actually improves our lives is rarely a consideration. And maybe it should be.

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