On my recent American speaking tour to promote my new book Against The Machine, I was invited to address an audience at Grove City College, near Pittsburgh. I spoke to a large crowd in a beautiful neo-Gothic chapel about the similarities between the emerging Machine civilisation of the digital age and the prophecies made in Aldous Huxley’s 1931 novel Brave New World.
My particular focus was not just the shape of the Machine, but the potential for escaping it. I offered six possible exits, all drawn from ideas in my book. An alternative title for this talk, now that I think about it, might have been ‘How to be a Savage.’
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Here’s to us all all becoming Savages …
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