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“Ten, fifteen years from now the world will be nothing like what we remember, nothing much like what we experience now,” Birkerts wrote. “We will be swimming in impulses and data—the microchip will make us offers that will be very hard to refuse.” Indeed, few of us have refused them. As each new technology, from smartphones to voice-activated home assistants, becomes normalized faster and faster, our ability to refuse it lessens. The choice presented in The Gutenberg Elegies, between embrace and skepticism, hardly seems like a choice anymore: the new generation is born swaddled in the digital world’s many arms.
I debate imagined trolls in the shower. “When a work compels immersion, if often also has the power to haunt from a distance,"
Amazing article. Beautifully mixes predictions from Birkerts' 90's book with her own 2019 reflections. I found this article on an Hacker News research journey, by the content, I should've known this had passed Readup already!
Birkerts’s argument (and mine) isn’t that books alleviate loneliness, either: to claim a goal shared by every last app and website is to lose the fight for literature before it starts.
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(And I Really, ReAlLy, REALLY Pray/BELIEVE/Imagine RU and other conscious apps for betterment aid to prevent the more unpleasantness of what the below
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Amazing article. Beautifully mixes predictions from Birkerts' 90's book with her own 2019 reflections. I found this article on an Hacker News research journey, by the content, I should've known this had passed Readup already!
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