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Paul, Pamela.
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Internet industry -- Side effects.
Internet -- Social aspects.
American essays -- 21st century.
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Paul, Pamela.
Internet industry -- Side effects.
Internet -- Social aspects.
American essays -- 21st century.
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100
things
we
've
lost
to the
internet
/ Pamela Paul.
by
Paul, Pamela.
Crown, 2021.
Call #:
814.6 P324o
Subjects
Internet
industry -- Side effects.
Internet
-- Social aspects.
American essays -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780593136775 (hc.)
Alternate title:
One hundred
things
we
have
lost
to the
internet
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 260 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial
things
we
've
lost
. Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from the pre-Internet age? They're gone. To some of those
things
we
can say good riddance. But many
we
miss terribly. Whatever our emotional response to this departed realm,
we
are faced with the fact that nearly every aspect of modern life now takes place in filtered, isolated corners of cyberspace -- a space that has slowly subsumed our physical habitats, replacing or transforming the office, our local library, a favorite bar, the movie theater, and the coffee shop where people met one another's gaze from across the room. Even as
we
've gained the ability to gather without leaving our house, many of the fundamentally human experiences that have sustained us have disappeared. In one hundred glimpses of that pre-Internet world, Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, presents a captivating record, enlivened with illustrations, of the world before cyberspace-from voicemails to blind dates to punctuation to civility. There are the small losses: postcards, the blessings of an adolescence largely spared of documentation, the Rolodex, and the genuine surprises at high school reunions. But there are larger repercussions, too: weaker memories, the inability to entertain oneself, and the utter demolition of privacy. [The book] is at once an evocative swan song for a disappearing era and, perhaps, a guide to reclaiming just a little bit more of the world IRL."--From publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
Holds:
1
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Adult Nonfiction
814.6 P324o
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814.6 P324o
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