It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickoff is one commercial away. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed. What follows is a dazzling and profoundly moving conversation about what makes us human." (Taken from front inside of dust jacket) Signed by the author on the half title page. Hardback in Fine condition with unclipped dust jacket also in Fine condition (some minor rubbing to rear of dust jacket). Black boards with gilt titles. Clean and tightly bound with no marks or annotations noted. Signed by the author on the half title page.