Comfortication: AI, Friction, and the Future of Human Becoming

Every convenience is a small trade, and no one ever asked you to sign forit. The dishwasher took the drudgery. The calculator took the arithmetic.The map took your sense of where you are. Each was a fair bargain on itsown terms. Now a machine offers to take the thinking, the writing, thedeciding - and the same fair bargain arrives at the one workshop that madeyou who you are.This is a book about what goes missing when nothing is hard, and about theolder, more stubborn idea that some difficulty is not a cost to be cut but acraft to be kept. Where do you want to hold on to the friction?