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The transfer of the self’s setting from bodies to communication systems
Nicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Fully engaged, we work with the writer to build our own book.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
A book is an attempt to make thought permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Ten, fifteen years from now the world will be nothing like what we remember, nothing much like what we experience now. We will still wear clothes and live in dwellings, but
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
The grand move from fixity to flows can be starkly illustrated in the status of books. Books began as authoritative fixed masterpieces.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
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“In place of occasional experiences of depth that renew and satisfy us,” I observed, “we are simply given an infinite surface upon which to skim indefinitely.”
L. M. Sacasas • What You Get Is the World
We inhabit what writer George W. S. Trow has christened “the context of no context.”