Welcome to the Poppy Field

My new book, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, doesn’t come out until the end of January, but I just received my box of author copies. I will spare you the unboxing video (though it is exceptionally engaging), but I won’t spare you the photo:

Superbloom offers a cultural history of communication, particularly in its mechanized, mediated form, that culminates in an exploration of how one particular media machine, the computer network, shapes the way we communicate today — w...