This book is about how man's environment has increasingly become abstracted from nature, or "disappearing" into various areas such as art, architecture, writing, music, technology, and even man himself. The first section summarizes the overall message of the book, the remaining sections are just expansions on the elements described in the first section.
There were some interesting ideas in this book, but overall it seemed to be pretty abstract and I didn't want to have to work that hard to "get" why this was important. This reminded me of the type of books you get forced to read in school, and I forced myself to complete it. I think some of the ideas, particularly in the last chapter, may have been off base in terms of predicting the future. This book was written before the online revolution took shape, and this book did not seem to anticipate the effects of the online revolution.
I give it four stars since it was well written and I'm sure it is good for you, like eating your vegetables.
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