I recently came across the book „Non-Things“ by the philosopher Byung-Chul Han. I read a few chapters and had a few thoughts. I’m curious if anyone else on this forum has read the book or is interested in reading it in the future. I’d also like to know your thoughts on the book and its interesting perspectives on modern „smart-tech“.
For everyone who doesn’t want to read the book, here is a quick summary of some of his perspectives.
- modern society drifts from an analog world into a digital world
- things that had a meaning in the past like watches or telephones are being replaced by things that lost its original main purpose and now are things that collect information and display it (smartphones/smartwatches) → smart homes turn homes that help us to relax into a place that is like a prison to us, because the smart things take care of everything and subtitle dictate us to do
- because of this we humans tend to get addicted to receive information whenever we want
- the loss of analog objects results in stress and fear
- analog objects contain emotions and histories, for example print out pictures of the family, but smart objects and in this example digital pictures lack of it
I’m very curious about your opinions and hope that some people might find a very interesting book to read 
Much Love,
Patrick 