A WIRED TOP-TEN BOOK of the DECADE

Laurence’s prize-winning debut explores the early years of life in the fourth dimension – our online world of social media, ceaseless communication and instant information. How do digital technologies rewire our inner lives? What new senses are we developing? How has our experience of time and space changed?  

Using a wide range of references – from Airbnb to Oedipus, Madonna to Macbeth – this book describes the personal effects of the digital revolution in highly original ways. Laurence combines pop culture, history, literature, and philosophy to present a striking portrait of the world’s first four-dimensional citizens.

The Four-Dimensional Human was named a Top-Ten Non-Fiction Book of the Decade by WIRED magazine, was shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize, won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize, and was the Sunday Times Thought Book of the Year.