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Our Electronic “Life”
The Internet of Usby michael p. lynchlivewright, 256 pages, $25.95 If diamonds could be had for free, would we still stoop to pick them up? Today we see the...
Persuasion Anxiety
Republic of Spindavid greenbergw. w. norton, 560 pages, $35 Our country, being democratic, sends its cultural elites through cycles of high anxiety that the people will be duped into...
Mobile Technology: A Complication in the Human Condition
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in the Digital Age by sherry turklepenguin, 448 pages, $27.95 On the surface, this is another book about how smartphones disrupt conversation. It...
