100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
(Sprache: Englisch)
"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...
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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. 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. 100 Things We've 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"--
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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? You d be trapped in line at the supermarket, your eyes glazed after having read each headline on every tabloid wilting by the Doublemint gum, twice. You d be waiting for your roommate to show up for dinner, having plotted your meal from hors d oeuvres to dessert twenty minutes ago, or languishing at the doctor s office with nothing but mottled old copies of Reader s 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 didn t you?
But we have solved this because there is no more boredom. There are no empty moments and the mere thought of it and 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 instant by the smartphone no sooner was the term coined than the problem was eliminated. The slightest void can be filled with a thumb to the screen: apps, clips, posts, links, the next bout of unfettered binge-watching all at the ready. Any number of friends, acquaintances, colleagues, Facebook friends, Words with Friends players, or chat group participants is on your wrist or in your pocket, set to engage.
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A novelist acquaintance told me how chagrined she was by her capacity to procrastinate online in lieu of working on her next book. (Join us, do.) After spending an entire afternoon on Instagram, to the point where she d seen every last post on her timeline, she was gripped by the sudden fear that one day she d arrive at a point where there was nothing more to see. The message on her phone would simply say, That s it. You re done. You ve reached the end of the Internet. I mentioned this to one of my children and he said, That joke is everywhere.
Kids grow up with an ever-present escape valve, like a built-in ejector seat from any unwanted situation. They never really have to be there if they don t want to be, and neither do the adults. The second most common reason people use Facebook, by their own admission, is to alleviate boredom. My husband s standard line when I ask him what he thought of a particular lecture or show has been to say derisively when it had zero interest for him, I went to SeaWorld, but now he or anyone else can actually rather than metaphorically go to SeaWorld, or at least some live-cam simulacrum, at any time. Tuning out no longer means spacing out; it means tuning in to something else.
People used to accept that much of life was boring. The word boredom didn t even emerge until the mid-nineteenth century, in part because it was nothing to be remarked upon. Life was boredom and boredom was life, whether it descended in the wheat field or at the spinning wheel. Memoirs of pre-twenty-first-century existence are rife with long stretches of tedium, no matter how much money you had to fritter away. When not idling in drawing rooms, the leisure class took aimless walks down empty footpaths and gazed at trees. They went motoring and gazed at more trees. Those who had to work for a living had it harder. Agricultural and industrial and office jobs were often mind-numbing; few people were looking to be fulfilled or engaged by paid labor. Children got used to the idea from an early age, left unattended with nothing to distract them other than maybe a bookshelf or tree branch.
Only a few short decades ago, during the lost age of underparenting, grown-ups thought a certain am
A novelist acquaintance told me how chagrined she was by her capacity to procrastinate online in lieu of working on her next book. (Join us, do.) After spending an entire afternoon on Instagram, to the point where she d seen every last post on her timeline, she was gripped by the sudden fear that one day she d arrive at a point where there was nothing more to see. The message on her phone would simply say, That s it. You re done. You ve reached the end of the Internet. I mentioned this to one of my children and he said, That joke is everywhere.
Kids grow up with an ever-present escape valve, like a built-in ejector seat from any unwanted situation. They never really have to be there if they don t want to be, and neither do the adults. The second most common reason people use Facebook, by their own admission, is to alleviate boredom. My husband s standard line when I ask him what he thought of a particular lecture or show has been to say derisively when it had zero interest for him, I went to SeaWorld, but now he or anyone else can actually rather than metaphorically go to SeaWorld, or at least some live-cam simulacrum, at any time. Tuning out no longer means spacing out; it means tuning in to something else.
People used to accept that much of life was boring. The word boredom didn t even emerge until the mid-nineteenth century, in part because it was nothing to be remarked upon. Life was boredom and boredom was life, whether it descended in the wheat field or at the spinning wheel. Memoirs of pre-twenty-first-century existence are rife with long stretches of tedium, no matter how much money you had to fritter away. When not idling in drawing rooms, the leisure class took aimless walks down empty footpaths and gazed at trees. They went motoring and gazed at more trees. Those who had to work for a living had it harder. Agricultural and industrial and office jobs were often mind-numbing; few people were looking to be fulfilled or engaged by paid labor. Children got used to the idea from an early age, left unattended with nothing to distract them other than maybe a bookshelf or tree branch.
Only a few short decades ago, during the lost age of underparenting, grown-ups thought a certain am
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Autoren-Porträt von Pamela Paul
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Pamela Paul
- 2021, 288 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Masse: 15,1 x 21,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Crown
- ISBN-10: 0593136772
- ISBN-13: 9780593136775
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.10.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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[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
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