How We Disappear

Both sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly author­i­ta­tive and deeply, mov­ing­ly poet­ic, How We Dis­ap­pear is a reck­on­ing with imper­ma­nence that dou­bles as a les­son in how entropy actu­al­ly func­tions. I don’t mind know­ing that I’m both liv­ing and dying at once if it means I can spend a bit of my time on earth in the com­pa­ny of a mind like Thomas S. Mullaney’s.

“From the per­son­al to the cos­mic, loss and dis­ap­pear­ance give up their ter­rors as Thomas S. Mul­laney ranges with ency­clo­pe­dic eru­di­tion from fos­sils to tax returns, pho­tographs, sono­grams, lan­guage, dig­i­ti­za­tion, and far more in an idio­syn­crat­ic his­to­ry of tech­nol­o­gy that is also a his­to­ry of His­to­ry, its dreams and its errors.”