Chapter 7The Price We Pay
I’ve occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
Author and digital pioneer, Jaron Lanier1
So where’s the catch? A Digital Renaissance that makes work fundamentally more rewarding and a wave of innovation as significant as the Industrial Revolution – there must be downsides. Just as the Industrial Age forced an agrarian Britain, through mechanization, into a city-centred landscape, uprooting lives and familiar patterns of living along the way, so the current seismic-level change naturally comes with a ‘price tag’.
The ‘Second Machine Age’, as Brynjolfsson and McAfee call this digital revolution,2 brings with it great benefits but also costs. In The Digital ...
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