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Jennifer Egan on storytelling in a data-hooked world

The TED Interview

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Mystery Is a Great Place to End On

Stephen johnson: What is the mystery that's still out there, that kind of the unsolved problem in your field, or just in society around you, that you're most intrigued to find the answer to? genifre can: I think that the problem i would like to see solved is the problem of the internet prompting a cultural psychosis in which people cannot distinguish between reality and illusion. My brother was schitzophrenic, and we were extremely close. He took his life in 20 16 because a lifetime of living with psychosis was so exhausting and so difficult for him that he gave up. That's the definitionof psychosis. And i don't know how we solve that.

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