Jason's Reading (books by book authors/Jennifer Rauch)

The preface to this book had me immediately thinking about my own relationship with media and technology. Rauch describes how she spent 6 months living as if it were 1989 – no cell phone, no Internet, no MP3 player, etc. – and I was impressed. Granted, she did it in 2009, and she acknowledges that it would be much harder “today” (published 2018), but still. Her experience was a reminder to me that so many of the things we consider indispensable about modern technology are merely things we’ve gotten used to and don’t actually need. …