The Tourist and The Pilgrim: Essays on Life and Technology in the Digital Age

Technology has always been a part of human culture, but not all technologies are created equal. The digital technologies that structure so much of our lived experience have been greeted with both unbridled enthusiasm and reactionary pessimism. Neither of these postures toward digital technology, however, help us to think clearly about its consequences. The essays collected in The Tourist and the Pilgrim draw on an eclectic assortment of sources -- historical, literary, sociological, philosophical -- to understand how digital technologies effect our personal and social lives.

Michael Sacasas has been writing about technology and culture since 2010. His work has appeared in The New Inquiry, Gizmodo, and The American; and it has been cited in The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Gawker, Hazlitt, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.