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I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Sven Birkerts • 8 highlights
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His questions can be asked about all technologies and media. What happens to us when we become infatuated with and then seduced by them? Do they free us or imprison us? Do they improve or degrade democracy? Do they make our leaders more accountable or less so? Our system more transparent or less so? Do they make us better citizens or better consume
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kevin Kelly • 4 highlights
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It seems distant now, but once upon a time the Internet was going to save us from the menace of TV. Since the late fifties, TV has had a special role, both as the country’s dominant medium, in audience and influence, and as a bête noire for a certain strain of American intellectuals, who view it as the root of all evil. In “Amusing Ourselves to Dea... See more