Happy #WorldBookDay2026! Feel free to dress up as any character from this book... or just give side eye to the person next to you.
0
2
3
Technology is STILL not the problem.
Or - why I didn't need to update the book for the paperback edition: technologyisnottheproblem.substack.com/p/technology-s…
0
0
1
paperback publication July 3rd!
"principled, courageous, and original"
"a balanced and insightful view of how technology is changing our world"
"eloquent and invigorating"
“Interesting and informative but also enticing and highly addictive. ... not the internet... this book."
1
1
4
Paperback out July 3rd - pre-order now!
1
4
6
Aaron Copland...
As featured in @TechintProblem, both his Fanfare for the Common Man, and his interrogation by Senator McCarthy’s Committee, who didn’t like his political associations.
Elsewhere, his Quiet City is echoed in the title music for House of Cards (US version).
0
0
0
Could you live without your smartphone?
(yes, obviously)
open.substack.com/pub/technology…
0
3
2
Thanks @WaterstonesTraf for the pithy summary!
Find me in New Non-Fiction...
0
0
0
See Chapter 10...
One nice thing about writing a book is when your friends read it and then come over to you in the bar to argue about whether animals have morality
1
1
0
Great thread on what Google have done since acquiring DoubleClick (as seen in Chapter 8) ...
Part of an extremely useful thread about Google’s history of acquiring and aggregating consumer data:
0
1
0
"Technology is not the problem - You are!"
@TimandraHarknes at my @britishlibrary book launch
(full video at vimeo.com/user42612226/x…)
0
2
1
Miss my book launch event at @britishlibrary ?
Catch the highlights, and hear from audience members why they wanted to buy the book:
vimeo.com/980902379
0
2
3
Replying to @TechintProblem
some drawings I made of I Prigioni when I saw them in Florence (Firenze) after talking ot Paolo Benanti. Still struggling to emerge from the marble all these centuries later.
0
0
1
see Chapter 3 in. particular:
TikTok won't win the election - me for ⁦@unherd⁩
For a deeper dive into digital political campaigning, see ⁦@TechintProblem⁩ unherd.com/2024/06/tiktok…
0
1
0
Paolo Benanti explains how humans create ourselves from what's given to us, using Michelangelo (in Chapter 6).
“Some people treat AIs like idols, like oracles, like demigods. The risk is that they delegate critical thinking and decisional power to these machines.”

Paolo Benanti, who invited me into his monastery garden to talk tech for ⁦@TechintProblem⁩ theguardian.com/world/article/…
1
2
1
Lovely, wide-ranging chat with @IonaItalia for the @Quillette podcast
0
1
1
Another great photo of @tiffanyjenkins and @TimandraHarknes in conversation at the launch event. Publication day Thursday 23rd!
0
0
3
Launch event: May 14th, British Library.
See @TimandraHarknes in conversation with @tiffanyjenkins, have a glass of wine, and buy the book a week before publication date!
Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/technology-i…
0
15
20
Invitations are going out for the launch Let me know if you think you should be invited and haven't been yet....
1
4
16
first proof copies arrived!
0
0
1