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The End Of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection

Michael Harris

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Description:In an online world, where everything seems to be at our fingertips, Michael Harris discovers that our constant connection is taking something away from us, too —something we may never be able to reclaim.Returning to her home village in rural Malaysia, Linda Jimi brings along a laptop in order to show her family the wonders of the Internet. “This can show you everything,” she tells her mother. Videos of celebrities flash across the laptop’s screen.“It can show me everything?” her mother asks, now full of wonder.“Everything. What do you want to see?”Excited, tearing “Show me my mother in the afterlife.”Michael Harris chronicles the singular experience of living through the greatest technological translation of this age. The “straddle generation”—those who know life before and after the rise of the Internet—have a unique opportunity to witness this monumental shift. We revel in ubiquitous information and instant access to anything we fancy—but we rarely stop to consider what we’ve given up in exchange for such constant connections.Popular opinion holds that technology has enhanced our lives, but what exactly did we lose along the way? Harris argues that the lack we lost was, itself, a precious commodity. He follows this loss of lack, this end of absence, through a series of chapters devoted to specific areas of our lives, including sex, memory, attention span, and more.Marshaling a vast span of research, plus interviews with global experts and aspects of personal memoir, What We’ve Lost reminds us that each technology removes us from an earlier self. In other words, the flood of constant connection is not as free as we like to think. When online life so wholly takes over our daily experience, what invisible things begin to drop away? The book’s message is an urgent once you’ve lost absence, it’s very, very difficult to recall its value.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The End Of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection. To get started finding The End Of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In an online world, where everything seems to be at our fingertips, Michael Harris discovers that our constant connection is taking something away from us, too —something we may never be able to reclaim.Returning to her home village in rural Malaysia, Linda Jimi brings along a laptop in order to show her family the wonders of the Internet. “This can show you everything,” she tells her mother. Videos of celebrities flash across the laptop’s screen.“It can show me everything?” her mother asks, now full of wonder.“Everything. What do you want to see?”Excited, tearing “Show me my mother in the afterlife.”Michael Harris chronicles the singular experience of living through the greatest technological translation of this age. The “straddle generation”—those who know life before and after the rise of the Internet—have a unique opportunity to witness this monumental shift. We revel in ubiquitous information and instant access to anything we fancy—but we rarely stop to consider what we’ve given up in exchange for such constant connections.Popular opinion holds that technology has enhanced our lives, but what exactly did we lose along the way? Harris argues that the lack we lost was, itself, a precious commodity. He follows this loss of lack, this end of absence, through a series of chapters devoted to specific areas of our lives, including sex, memory, attention span, and more.Marshaling a vast span of research, plus interviews with global experts and aspects of personal memoir, What We’ve Lost reminds us that each technology removes us from an earlier self. In other words, the flood of constant connection is not as free as we like to think. When online life so wholly takes over our daily experience, what invisible things begin to drop away? The book’s message is an urgent once you’ve lost absence, it’s very, very difficult to recall its value.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The End Of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection. To get started finding The End Of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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