Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age

Sinopse

Are you always staring at your phone and never at the sky? If so, youÆre not alone. Many people today feel divorced from the natural world and a good number blame it on their digital lives. But what we need is more nature, not less technology.Find out how our smartphones, tablets and computers connect us to the natural world and learn 50 ways to bring your own digital life closer to nature.This book is not about giving up technology, itÆs about opening up your life. Join the Digital Wellbeing Facebook Group to share ideas and experiences https://www.facebook.com/groups/digitalwellbeing/ ABOUT THE AUTHORSue Thomas has an international reputation for her accessible and wide-ranging writing on technology, nature and culture. PRAISE FOR ''TECHNOBIOPHILIA: NATURE AND CYBERSPACE''æI''ll admit it: I love tech with natural elements like wood, and I don''t think I''m alone.Æ (Mike Elgan, Confessions of a Technobiophiliac, Computerworld)æThe book is about a powerful subliminal urge by our entire species to hang onto our connection to the natural world, as we are pulled deeper into the digital age.Æ (George Davis, Psychology Today)æA challenge to the sanctity of some mythical idea of our authentic experience of nature. (Richard Coyne, Edinburgh College of Art)æA very personal and broadly interdisciplinary look at one of the most important issues of our time ù the tension between the natural and digital worlds. This book provides a useful lens for seeing where we are, who we are, and where humans, our digital creations, and the natural world are heading. We need to learn to make fulfilling lives without abandoning either the world of technology or the world of biology. Technobiophilia shows the way.Æ ( Howard Rheingold, writer and critic.)æTechnobiophilia reminds readers that we control how we use our technologyùand even smartphones and screensavers can help us connect to the natural world.Æ (Emily Glaser, Orion Magazine)