back online after a year without the internet

I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was "corrupting my soul." It's a been a year now since I "surfed the…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2879 words)

Techno-toddlers

In the last chapter of her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan imagines a dystopian near future in which toddlers in the year 2020 download music to their ubiquitous "kiddie handsets",…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 18, 2011
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2751 words)
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