Digital Zombification
How the Digital Environment Is Reshaping Attention, Freedom and ConsciousnessBy Sauro Tronconi
Length4h 58m
About this audiobook
A message, another post, a recommendation: digital services accompany us into even the smallest everyday decisions. Digital Zombification asks what happens to our attention when our environment becomes increasingly skilled at anticipating our reactions.
Sauro Tronconi explores the relationship between human habits and the design of digital systems. The perspective extends from an individual moment in front of a screen to the conditions that shape collective judgment.
The book brings psychological and neuroscientific research into dialogue with philosophical questions about freedom and consciousness. It examines attention, algorithmic personalisation, the design of digital platforms and the conditions of democratic life, then explores ways to protect attention and recover room for deliberate action.
References throughout the four parts and an annotated bibliography invite further reading. “Zombification” describes a functional process, not a clinical diagnosis.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Technology
Length4 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Author’s Preface
2Prelude
3Introduction: The Vacant Gaze
4PART I The Making of Zombie sapiens
5Chapter 1: The Collapse of the Prefrontal Cortex
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6Chapter 2: Eight Seconds
7Chapter 3: Dopamine, the Engine of Pursuit
8Chapter 4: The Algorithm That Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
9Chapter 5: Fragmentation as a Form of Life
10Essential References for Part I
11PART II The Machine That Learns Us
12Chapter 6: The Invisible Laboratory
13Chapter 7: Total Personalisation
14Chapter 8: Predatory Design
15Chapter 9: Who Decides for You?
16Verified References for Part II
17PART III When Consciousness Becomes Political
18Chapter 10: Collective Suggestibility
19Chapter 11: Dopaminergic Populism
20Chapter 12: The Erosion of Democracy
21Notes and References for Part III
22PART IV Rebuilding the Human Being
23Chapter 13: Caring for Attention
24Chapter 14: Redesigning Technology
25Chapter 15: Rebuilding Public Space
26Notes and References for Part IV
27Conclusion: The Way Out of Sleep
28Epilogue
29Continuing the Work
30Annotated Bibliography
31About the Author
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