100 Things We've Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul

100 Things We've Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul

The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we've lost.

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Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from the pre-Internet age? They're gone.

To some of those things we can say good riddance. But many we miss terribly. Whatever our emotional response to this departed realm, we are faced with the fact that nearly every aspect of modern life now takes place in filtered, isolated corners of cyberspace-a space that has slowly subsumed our physical habitats, replacing or transforming the office, our local library, a favorite bar, the movie theater, and the coffee shop where people met one another's gaze from across the room. Even as we've gained the ability to gather without leaving our house, many of the fundamentally human experiences that have sustained us have disappeared.

In one hundred glimpses of that pre-Internet world, Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, presents a captivating record, enlivened with illustrations, of the world before cyberspace-from voicemails to blind dates to punctuation to civility. There are the small losses- postcards, the blessings of an adolescence largely spared of documentation, the Rolodex, and the genuine surprises at high school reunions. But there are larger repercussions, too- weaker memories, the inability to entertain oneself, and the utter demolition of privacy.

100 Things We've Lost to the Internet is at once an evocative swan song for a disappearing era and, perhaps, a guide to reclaiming just a little bit more of the world IRL.

Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and manages book coverage at The New York Times, where she began her career as a children's books editor in 2011. She is also the host of the New York Times' weekly Book Review podcast. My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, The Starter Marriage and the Future of marriage, Pornified, Parenthood, Inc., and By the Book are among her five books. She has written for The Economist, Worth, and The New York Times Styles section in the past. Her writing has also featured in major magazines such as The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate, Vogue, Psychology Today, Brown Alumni Magazine, and others.

She lives in New York with her husband and three children. The New York Times Book Review's children's book editor is Maria Russo. She holds a Ph.D. and has worked as a writer and editor for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Observer, and Salon. Columbia University awarded him a bachelor's degree in English and Comparative Literature.

Her husband and three children reside with her in Montclair, New Jersey.

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ISBN 13	9780593136775
ISBN 10	0593136772
Title	100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
Author	Pamela Paul
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2021-10-26
Number of pages	288
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