A Misfit Highwire Act: essays on everything from an internet polimath

In A Misfit Highwire Act, Matt Shapiro walks the tightrope between technology and humanity, progress and loss, cynicism and hope. Drawing from fifteen years of writing published across a range of publications, this collection of essays explores the ideas, tensions, and contradictions that define our struggles in an uncertain technological and political society.From the rise of data journalism and the illusions of digital permanence to the culture wars shaping media, politics, and art, Shapiro examines the systems we trust and the cracks forming beneath them. He brings a fierce determination to affirm the dignity of all humans while examining an emerging cultural and technological landscape that threatens our identities, our dignity, and even our memory.This book is for the misfits and contrarians who are curious but cautious, optimistic but tired, eager to grasp the unlimited promises of technological futurism, but aware that it threatens our hold on the past. Read more