Comfortication

Every convenience is a small trade, and no one ever asked you to sign for it. The dishwasher took the drudgery. The calculator took the arithmetic. The map took your sense of where you are. Each was a fair bargain on its own terms. Now a machine offers to take the thinking, the writing, the deciding - and the same fair bargain arrives at the one workshop that made you who you are. This is a book ...