After listening to this audiobook, I felt more caught up on my understanding of how technology is affecting society. I’m a compulsive learner, and lately I’ve been working on transitioning from thinking of myself as an overgrown college student to trying to take myself seriously as a professional adult. In this book he makes a strong case that lifelong learning is a part of our societal reality. The basic tools we work with are changing rapidly. I just took an online class to refresh my excel skills. This book helped me frame that as part of continuing education, rather than as a regression back to school. It also helped me frame the actual current threats better: namely terrorism and hacking. I started listening because of the title. I’ve been having problems with people being late and/or flakey. It didn’t really address that issue beyond „people are so busy these days!“ And the subtitle promised optimism. I guess it was somewhat optismistic? Kind of? I’d say it’s more like „golly gee, what a world!“ And there was a LOT of pining for the old days. In the end it wasn’t what it said it was. And it felt overlong, repetitive, and boring. I think I could have absorbed the same information in a tenth of the time. I know a lot of people are big fans of this author, maybe they’d find his long, detailed memoir style ramblings more interesting than I did. I kept thinking he was going to make a point. Why did I finish it? It started strong and I hoped it would end strong after I got past the fluff. Nope.