The author says technology is like a double edged sword. It can lead to beautiful things, but it also has led us into a state of disarray in a lot of ways. We spend countless hours reading and listening to other people's opinions about what we should do or how we should live - but make comparatively little effort applying that knowledge and making it our own. "We have such scarcity base psychology," he says.

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