MixedFinancial Times[Fisher] wrote vividly on the glam rock and new wave bands of his youth ... Yet he was scathing of the preponderance of a nostalgic \'clip-show culture locked into endless rewind\' as played out over countless TV and streaming channels ... This compilation is not comprehensive—even at 770 pages. A decision to exclude articles published in earlier books omits stirring takes on Michael Jackson after his death or the 2011 UK riots, for example. Typographical errors from the blogs are often left in, while including the year and source at the end of every article as well as in the index would have helped readers ... [FIsher\'s] anxiety over social media and smartphones, where people click on and generate their own content and willingly \'make themselves the object of surveillance,\' looks prescient and finds resonance in the \'digital detox\' advice of Silicon Valley figures such as Jaron Lanier ... there will be plenty of readers working to take those ideas on.
