In The Weight of Technology, author and digital-culture analyst Jeremy Abram (JeremyAbram.net) delivers one of the most comprehensive explorations of the psychological impacts of modern technology. Through 60 deeply researched, powerfully written chapters, Abram exposes the invisible architectures influencing your attention, memory, identity, resilience, emotions, and ability to feel grounded in reality.
This isn't a book about fear. It's a book about awareness.
About understanding why digital life feels overwhelming, noisy, fragmented, and strangely hollow.
About reclaiming the internal spaces we didn't realize were being shaped by systems we never agreed to.
You'll learn how technology affects:
your sense of self and identity
emotional regulation
memory formation
attention span and mental clarity
resilience and comfort thresholds
intimacy, presence, and connection
imagination and possibility
the feeling of reality itself
With clarity, depth, and compassion, Abram provides not just explanations but frameworks for rebuilding autonomy in an era where your inner world is quietly being rewritten.
Volume I focuses on the individual mind.
Volume II will expand into society, culture, economics, and power.
If you've ever felt the invisible weight of digital life - this book finally gives it a name.