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Chargement... 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet (2021)par Pamela Paul
   Books Read in 2022 (1,667) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) TimeLord10SPW | May 21, 2023 |  ) d.v. | May 16, 2023 | A very enjoyable, well written collection of short musings on things (like paper, anonymity, the Rolodex, punctuation, and eye contact), that have vanished into the world of the internet. The musings on habits and things that no longer seem necessary are nostalgic and droll. Other than entertainment, however, the book provides some insights into the speeding up of daily life and the loss of politeness. In the brief chapter on "The College Lecture" a professor is quoted as telling his students that they would learn better if they took notes, but almost none of them do, because they no longer handwrite anything. The power point of the lecture is now the preferred content. I am constantly, like now, typing notes rather than handwriting them, and, like Milo Minderbender in "Catch 22", I love journals, stationery, and calendars, but never use them. I would like to keep this book, and return occasionally to it, or share with others. (  ) neurodrew | Sep 7, 2022 |  ) BibliophageOnCoffee | Aug 12, 2022 | ) thewestwing | Aug 12, 2022 |
 100 Things draws on themes that have run through a lot of her work. It applies an appealing humour and light touch, and tells a vivid story: how, in little more than 20 years, we have shed ingrained social and behavioural habits, as well as some of the most basic ways we once thought of ourselves and our relationships with others. If they are minded to read it, anyone under 40 will presumably understand the book as the evocation of a strange, slow, endlessly inconvenient reality that now feels almost exotic. For anyone older, it will deliver a sense of loss – and of being old enough to remember times that seem almost hilariously distant. One of Paul's talents is the ability to see big change in lots of small ones. She writes about the end of talking to strangers on aeroplanes; the increasingly lost human habit of staring out of windows; and why no one bothers to remember phone numbers any more. In one particularly ingenious entry, she explains the demise of the full stop (or, in American English, the "period"). If you have ever wondered why putting such once-crucial punctation in emails, phone messages or tweets now feels so awkward, here is the answer: "The period can feel so emphatic as to sound sarcastic, the internet’s version of 'puh-leeze' and 'no, thank you' and 'srsly' rolled into one tiny dot." It can easily come across as passive-aggressive. Exclamation marks, moreover, "now convey warmth and sincerity"; failing to use them runs the risk of making the person you are messaging feel uncertain and anxious. Such small transformations, Paul explains, arrive without warning and magnify a sense of everything being in flux. For fear of becoming social outcasts, most people feel they have little option but to try frantically to keep up.
"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"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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