Harnessing technology to the power of the imagination, he argues, should be a way for its users to engage more, not to escape from engagement - a philosophy he applies to himself with rigour.
"We must not shy from engagement.
Yet the rewards of art derive from engagement, attention, effort.
But reach alone is a flawed measure – the real benefits of digital come from engagement.
Grimsby, on the other hand, recoils from engagement and resorts to something like slander.
To most Americans, drone wars are popular, of little concern, and save our troops from engagement.
(Why not a continuum from engagement to disengagement or from attachment to detachment? Beats me).
Numbness begets numbness, and it's easy to steel ourselves to our times, or to withdraw from engagement altogether.
Myanmar's South-East Asian neighbours, as well as India and China, have tried and profited from—"engagement".
A similar shying away from engagement with Mary Shelley's work, except as it comments on her life, is evident throughout this (again) not-very-literary biography.
This year's attractions include lectures, gardening demonstrations and, in the Wedding Room, a series of floral exhibitions depicting every stage of one's nuptials, from engagement to honeymoon.
