Description
Daniel Boorstin, one of America’s best-known lawyer-historians, is a fervent proponent of technology. Yet, he also recognizes its drawbacks—its unintended consequences: a decline in poignancy—a thinning out of experience. How did glass, transportation, refrigeration, vertical living spaces, advertising, insurance, franchising, and packaging affect our daily life? How did this progress lead to a decline in congregation –an artificial segregation/divide? What if we thought about democracy as a process, not a condition?
