‘An Age of [Digital] Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive.’

Let’s discuss this essay below by Ross Douthat, who is an opinion columnist for the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/opinion/extinction-technology-culture.html

You can access the New York Times (free) via ‘online resources’ at any of the local library websites (just follow the prompts).

“Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete. But the age of digital revolution — the time of the internet and the smartphone and the incipient era of artificial intelligence — threatens an especially comprehensive cull.”

The first obvious question about the author’s concerns is: Does it matter whether certain things disappear? Why, or why not? But maybe the best thing any of us can do is get together in-person to discuss issues like this. =]

~Michael