DEATH BY DEVICE
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I have chosen the title for this book because of my interest in how people today have become slavishly addicted to their “devices.” No doubt there are marvelous things contained therein and great advancements for society accomplished—I have seen the evidence of that—in this rapidly growing and expanding technology. But, there are also definite negatives, as we shall see. Coming out from town on the train, or in airports, I am one of the very few not consulting some device or other. I realize by not doing so how “free” my mind is, to roam about and wander in “non-tech space,” to create my own thinking and responses, to exist in my very own world. Perhaps this may be seen as simplistic and a sort of Luddite illusion. But you have to fully understand what I am implying. (By the way, I now read of “ecological resorts” where devices are not allowed. Perhaps some people are on to something?)
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The author freely admits that “devices” are not all bad. For better or worse they have changed the world. But this book ranges far from the subject of the effects of “devices,” often into areas distinctly “politically incorrect.” Some commentary is amusing; others might be seen as “disturbing.” This is a good companion book for your “one-way trip to Mars!” Read it, and you will never be the same again! Nor will be the society described. We live in changing times; there is a distinct sense of a “rising sadness” for lost America...
About the Author
Dayton Lummis’s penchant for solitude and simplicity was forged by his spell at the remote and lonely Rocking L Ranch in the East Mojave desert. Although these days he can at times be found on the streets of New York or Philadelphia, always his mind wanders inward as it did with the whispering desert winds. He remembers the Sixties—and he WAS there, at the epicenter, San Francisco! And, as he is fond of saying, “A hallucination a day keeps reality away!”