[Air-L] dystopian theme
Charles Ess
charles.ess at gmail.com
Sun Aug 25 21:32:47 PDT 2013
Again, thanks - and yes, please: write that book!
- c.
On 26.08.13 00:15, "Barry Wellman" <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Charles,
> I also think the bartender's remark reflects the continuing dystopian meme
> that new tech is going to kill off old true community. Sherry Turkle's
> Alone Together is a recent example, as is the obssessive nature of NYT
> op-eds and magazine pieces (as distinct from their good news reporting).
>
> Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden first got me thinking about this, and
> I put a bunch of early internet examples into "Net Surfers Dont Ride
> Alone" and "Physical Space and Cyber Place"
>
> Marx traces back to Tommy Jefferson. One day, I'll do a book on this.
>
> Barry Wellman
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