“Drouin offers tips for how to embrace the online world without jeopardising real-life experiences, from limiting screen-time to dating more decisively. Using cold, hard statistics (the average person reportedly touches their phone 2,617 times a day), personal anecdotes and colourful analogies (Tinder swiping is like a sushi conveyor belt), she proves that intimacy is crucial to our health and happiness and compels us not to lose it to accidental tech addiction.” –New Statesman
Preface vii
Introduction: Contemplating the Future of Everything 1
1 How to Survive a Pandemic 29
2 How to Survive Childhood 59
3 How to Survive Friendship 89
4 How to Survive the Internet 113
5 How to Survive Dating 137
6 How to Survive Marriage 169
7 How to Survive Growing Old 201
Afterword 229
Acknowledgments 233
Notes 235
Index 269