David Shenk's best-selling book Data Smog warned of the perils of an Information Age where too much information could stifle human creativity, rather than promote it. Shenk's latest book, The Forgetting. Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic puts the shadow illness into an artistic and historical context.
Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two...
"David Shenk looks at the new face of our world with a curiosity and connection-making responsiveness that make him exhilarating to read. These are bits, takes, provisional sweeps at issues still...
Media scholar ( and Internet Enthusiast ) David Shenk examines the troubling effects of information proliferation on our bodies, our brains, our relationships, and our culture, then offers strikingly...
