Communications: A call for a mass social media switch-off

Communications: Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, By Jaron Lanier, Bodley Head, €13

In his 2010 manifesto You Are Not a Gadget, tech insider Jaron Lanier argued that anti-humanist ideologies embedded in the internet mean it diminishes human experience, even while propelling it. In the near-decade since You Are Not a Gadget, the world has become a few shades darker and more menacing. The internet has had a serious ...