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The Internet as Blinding Mirror

Thursday, May 16th, 2024

Review of A Web of Our Own Making by Antón Barba-Kay, the book and the review stand among the many recent attempts to capture the disruptive strangeness of what the internet is doing to us. This one, as is becoming the norm with such investigations, mostly concerns the internet on the phone, or the effects of the convergence of the two. Very nicely written with rather captivating reflections on depth of psychological change (for those of us old enough to remember a time before all this…) the convergence has wrought.