“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters”

Chris asked me to read George Packer’s book The Unwinding.  This is exactly the kind of lefty Lit I love.  The book elucidates the, I think, obvious ways that greed and politics are affecting the world. The above quote is from someone in the book lamenting the prevalence of cyber space over real space.  I hadn’t thought about it that way.

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