Book

The Great Irony of Technology

This book explores how technology leaves us better off, objectively, then our great-grandparents’ generation, but feeling worse off, subjectively. This synthesizes the techno-utopian school of thought that “this is the best time ever to be alive”, and technological Singularity will be “an age of abundance for all”, with our lived experience which shouts to us that the “world is going to hell”.   It will be available next year.

Should we really stare at our screens and be depressed? Or is this REALLY the best time ever to be alive?

Maybe we can square the circle by entertaining the fact that both might be true?

If so, how do we navigate these turbulent times?

This book bridges these two very different views of our modern times, and then examines these questions from the perspectives of numerous sub-groups of the US population, class, race, gender, geography, education, and other factors.

Book concludes that root cause of this dynamic is an interplay in how human nature shapes adoption of technology, and discusses this root cause in some depth, as well as raising possible solutions.  Makes the point that if this dynamic continues into the future, the accelerating trends in technology across many areas are likely to lead to a rapid erosion of human quality of life, but that this may be avoidable if it is recognized and addressed. 

Publication date is mid 2026, from Brill Press

Foreword by Tony Aghazarian, ‘father’ of Apple iPod, iPhone, VisionPro