About the book
The book about us is the last generation that remembers life before the Internet and its values and advantages.
Each new communication technology – from papyrus and a printing press to social networks – not only carries new opportunities, but also makes you abandon something.
Very soon – in the foreseeable future – there will be no people who remember life before the Internet. What can this mean?
For future generations – nothing special. They will be so immersed in the online life that they will not even have questions about the original goals and meanings of the global network.
But you and I – those who found “before” and “after” and remember life without the Internet – have a unique opportunity to compare. Michael Harris believes that among all the changes we are subjected to, there is one most interesting that future generations can hardly understand. This is the end of loneliness: every emptiness in your life is filled, and genuine free time (in silence and single …
Author
Harris Michael
Editor
Krasovskaya Maria
Translator
Anvar Alexander Nikolaevich
Publisher
Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2015
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