One problem with the connected world and all its attendant dangers and drawbacks, is you can't turn your back on it. I mean, you can, with effort, but that doesn't make it go away or ameliorate its effects. Bridle, advocates the difficult option of greater understanind of the systems involved and how they work and what they do. It's all a bit grim, to be honest. The internet as a hyperobject. Too much data overwhelming our ablity to respond to crises in a timely manner. Climate change as an existential threat. The need to ground ourselves in the here and now with clarity and act decisively. A lot to digest in a relatively short book, but many of the more sickening anxieties about the mordern world are very well articulated, explored and expressed.