Analog hunger in a digital world : confronting today's identity crisis / Paul C. Vitz.
| Author/creator | Vitz, Paul C., 1935- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | South Bend, Indiana : St. Augustine's Press, 2024. |
| Description | 98 pages : illustration ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Analog and digital: how these terms are used here -- The analog to digital continuum and the analog to digital progression -- Analog and digital and the two brain hemispheres -- Further important psychological differences between analog and digital codes -- Analog hunger in a digital world: the cultural conflict today -- Digital imperialism -- Transhumanism: the ultimate digital imperialism -- Recovering analog life and personal identity and meaning -- The answer: Please, no extremes! We need both analog and digital -- How analog and digital integration can occur. |
| Abstract | Renowned psychologist Paul Vitz addresses the troubling fact that scientific progress is no longer making human beings happy. In fact, the reverse trend is taking hold: Individuals are more distressed and struggle with overwhelming confusion regarding personal identity and the meaning of life, even as technology makes daily life in many ways more manageable. Vitz asserts that the noteworthy connection between the sense of well-being with technological progress has been severed to a large degree. This is because contemporary digital technology has removed us from contact with our body and reality, that is, removed us from the analog. -- Cover page 4. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-98). |
| ISBN | 9781587310539 |
| ISBN | 1587310538 |
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