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In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

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The Machine Stops The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/the-machine-stops?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny

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