A treatise on our modern technological impasse written with erudition, interdisciplinary insight, critique, penetration, and freedom, with references ranging from art and mass culture to the history of technology, philosophy, and political economy. The dangers it highlights are not products of the author's imagination, but a reality that we may not have yet fully grasped, lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and the politics of "post-truth." A book that reveals that despite the apparent accessibility of information, we live in a new Middle Ages.