🎙️ Technodissolution: The Erosion of Self in the Digital Age - The Deeper Thinking Podcast

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🎙️ Technodissolution: The Erosion of Self in the Digital Age - The Deeper Thinking Podcast

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🎙️ Technodissolution: The Erosion of Self in the Digital Age (Read on Medium)
In an era where technology seamlessly integrates into every facet of our lives, have you ever paused to consider the cost of such convenience? Technodissolution delves into the subtle erosion of personal autonomy as algorithms anticipate our desires, and automation streamlines our choices.
Are we willingly trading our agency for efficiency?
What happens when our preferences are shaped before we even form them?
Join us as we explore the profound implications of a world where technology doesn't just serve us but begins to define us.
#Technodissolution #DigitalAge #Automation #AI #PersonalAutonomy #TheDeeperThinkingPodcast #Technology #SelfIdentity #DigitalEra #TechPhilosophy
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"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff

A comprehensive examination of how personal data has become a commodity and the implications for individual autonomy.
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"Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World" by Cal Newport

Offers strategies to reclaim control over your digital consumption and maintain autonomy in the digital age.
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"The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" by Nicholas Carr

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"You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto" by Jaron Lanier

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"The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads" by Tim Wu

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"Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked" by Adam Alter

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"The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think" by Eli Pariser

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"Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other" by Sherry Turkle

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"The Glass Cage: Automation and Us" by Nicholas Carr

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"Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy" by Cathy O'Neil

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📖 Comprehensive Academic References on Technodissolution
🔍 The Algorithmic Self: How Digital Systems Redefine Identity
📚 John Danaher, “Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work” (Harvard University Press, 2019)
Automation and Utopia
🔍 Surveillance Capitalism & The Commodification of Personal Data
📚 Shoshana Zuboff, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” (PublicAffairs, 2019)
Surveillance Capitalism
🔍 Digital Behaviorism: The Psychology of Algorithmic Influence
📚 B.F. Skinner (influence) & Natasha Dow Schüll, “Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas” (Princeton University Press, 2012)
Digital Behaviorism
🔍 The Loss of Decision-Making: The Rise of Predictive AI
📚 Frank Pasquale, “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information” (Harvard University Press, 2015)
Black Box Society
🔍 The Philosophy of Digital Minimalism & Cognitive Overload
📚 Cal Newport, “Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World” (Portfolio, 2019)
Digital Minimalism

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