Eric Brende is a writer and speaker who is best known for questioning what technology gives us — and what it quietly takes away. After studies at Yale and MIT, he and his wife, Mary, spent eighteen months living in a strict Anabaptist farming community without electricity or motors, an experiment he chronicled in his acclaimed book Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology. He has continued to live out those convictions in St. Louis, Missouri, where he has worked as a rickshaw driver and artisan soap maker while writing and speaking on technology and the good life.
A Catholic voice in the conversation about human flourishing in a machine age, Brende contributed to Ascension’s Disorientation: How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind, applying his distinctive perspective to the ideologies students encounter on campus.
