Michael Harris, "The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection"
ISBN: 1591846935 | 2014 | EPUB | 256 pages | 706 KB

"Every revolution in communication technology—from papyrus to the printing press to Twitter—is as much an opportunity to be drawn away from something as it is to be drawn toward something. And yet, as we embrace a techonology's gifts, we usually fail to consider what we're giving up in the process. Why would we bother to register the end of solitude, of ignorance, of lack? Why would we care that an absence had disappeared?"

Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean?