Nothing Is Firsthand
Screens, Feeds, AI, and the End of Direct ExperienceBy Felix Krane
Length6h 37m
About this audiobook
Nothing is firsthand anymore.
The news arrives through feeds. The city arrives through maps. Taste arrives through ratings. Memory arrives through photographs. Knowledge arrives through summaries. Answers arrive through AI. People arrive through profiles.
In Nothing Is Firsthand, Felix Krane delivers a sharp, unsettling diagnosis of the hidden layer now standing between us and reality itself. This is not an anti-technology book or nostalgia for an offline past. It is a book about mediated life, where screens, feeds, AI, maps, cameras, ratings, and summaries quietly replace direct experience with prepared versions of the world.
Elegant, urgent, and deeply readable, this audiobook gives language to the strange feeling that modern life is more connected, more informed, more visible, and somehow further away.
The world is still there. The question is whether we still know how to meet it.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology, Politics and Government
Length6 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Note: The World Arrives Edited
8Chapter 7: The Answer Replaced the Search
2Chapter 1: Nothing Is Firsthand
9Chapter 8: The Self Became a Signal
3Chapter 2: The Feed Is Not a Window
10Chapter 9: News Without Witnesses
4Chapter 3: The Map Replaced the Street
11Chapter 10: The Distance Between People
5Chapter 4: The Rating Replaced Taste
12Chapter 11: The Machine Sees First
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6Chapter 5: The Camera Ate the Moment
13Chapter 12: What Still Needs to Be Firsthand
7Chapter 6: The Summary Replaced the Book
14Closing Chapter: Reality Is Still There
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