
Has the Internet Trapped Us in the Past?
Offline with Jon Favreau
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We Can't Care About It All, Right?
We are tempted to think that we must know about and care about every possible thing happening in the world, right? So am, you know, electronic media, television and radio, already began to do this a in fact, there's some evidence that some people related to the telegraph in this way in the nineteenth century. Suddenly, with electronic media, and then expedentially more so with digital media, we have, as it were, our senses,. is a kind ofa marshal mc clelan way of putting it - but our senses have been extended into the whole world. We now can perceive things happening across the globe, almost instantaneously- as it were. And my sense of
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