After COVID-19 hit last year, San Francisco author and journalist Chris Colin and his wife upgraded their internet connection to fiber to accommodate their family’s increased reliance on the digital world. Ironically, Colin had also just completed a humor book that imagines what would happen if the internet went out forever.

“Off: The Day the Internet Died,” written by Colin and illustrated by Brooklyn-based visual artist Rinee Shah, is a funny picture book about a serious topic: What have we lost from our pervasive and likely permanent reliance on the web?

Read the rest of the interview at the San Francisco Chronicle.