100 Things We've Lost To The Internet - (libro En Inglés)

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Nombre: 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet - (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Paul, Pamela

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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.NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS A deft blend of nostalgia, humor and devastating insights.PeopleRemember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from the pre-Internet age? Theyre 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 cyberspacea 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 anothers gaze from across the room. Even as weve 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 cyberspacefrom 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.100 Things Weve Lost to the Internet 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. Críticas [A] rare feat of exploring what technology has done to us without succumbing to doom and panic . . . Poignant, thought-provoking.The GuardianAn accomplished solo act . . . Readers who remember the dawning of the internet era will find plenty to commiserate with in this mostly lighthearted lament.Publishers Weekly Biografía del autor Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and oversees book coverage at the Times, where she hosts the weekly Book Review podcast. She is the author of eight books, including My Life with Bob; How to Raise a Reader; By the Book; Parenting, Inc.; Pornified; The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony; and Rectangle Time, a book for children. Prior to joining The New York Times, she was a contributor to Time and The Economist, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Vogue. Extracto. © Reimpreso con autorización. Reservados todos los derechos. BoredomRemember boredom? The way it would hang over you when you were stuck in traffic and there was nothing decent on the radio and time dripped by? Youd be trapped in line at the supermarket, your eyes glazed after having read each headline on every tabloid wilting by the Doublemint gum, twice. Youd be waiting for your roommate to show up for dinner, having plotted your meal from hors doeuvres to dessert twenty minutes ago, or languishing at the doctors office with nothing but mottled old copies of Readers Digest on offer. Boredom was available just about everywhere. Nothing to do, nothing to divert or distract you during what should have been precious free moments amid the frantic hours of so much else to get done. You realize you could have brought a book, and why the hell didnt you?But we have solved this because there is no more boredom. There are no empty moments and the mere thought of itand who has time to think about it?seems absurd. Not so long ago, Motorola coined the term micro-boredom to describe those scattered, small moments that might bedevil us but could be solved in an insta

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Autor: Paul, Pamela
-Editorial: Paul, Pamela
-N° Paginas: 288
-Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
-Envío: Desde EE.UU.

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Editorial: Paul, Pamela
Titulo del libro: 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet - (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Paul, Pamela
Fecha de publicación: 2021
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 288
ISBN-13: 9780593136775
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