THE HABITS WE NEVER CHOSE

Ten Forces Rewriting Human Life - and How to Think Clearly About Them

von Anabil Sengupta

82 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Every morning, a system chooses something for us: what to notice, what to learn, how to work, what to buy, which health signal to fear and which person to meet. The most powerful habits of the digital age are not the habits we selected. They are the defaults that arrived through devices, markets, platforms and public emergencies-and quietly settled into ordinary life.In THE HABITS WE NEVER CHOSE, civil engineer and rationalist writer Anabil Sengupta follows ten forces reshaping human life: the tyranny of the instant, learning beyond the classroom, machine intelligence, public self-construction, verification, platform work, digital money, quantified health, access instead of ownership and algorithm-mediated relationships.Drawing on cognitive science, economics, anthropology, law, public policy, technology studies and field experience in rural West Bengal, the book asks three questions of every change: What does the evidence actually show? What is its historical precedent? Who gains, who loses and which inherited custom is collapsing?This is neither a productivity manual nor a prophecy of technological doom. It is a practical guide to keeping attention, judgement, privacy, skill, solidarity and human presence while using the tools that make modern life possible.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174863736
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published