The Digital Age: New York Review Of Books Article

In the Depths of the Digital Age

Edward Mendelson | June 23, 2016 isssue

[...] Every technological revolution coincides with changes in what it means to be a human being, in the kinds of psychological borders that divide the inner life from the world outside. Those changes in sensibility and consciousness never correspond exactly with changes in technology, and many aspects of today’s digital world were already taking shape before the age of the personal computer and the smartphone. But the digital revolution suddenly increased the rate and scale of change in almost everyone’s lives. 

Source: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/23/depths-of-the-digital-age/

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