Are You Able to Enjoy the Silence?

This column introduces the reader to the concept of Digital Natives (those born after 1985) and Digital Immigrants (those born before 1985) through a book called The End of Absence by Michael Harris. We "Digital Immigrants" are the last generation to remember the world before the Internet. I think I have a new book to add to my Kindle list.

He writes: "We have in this brief historical moment… a very rare opportunity… These are the few days when we can still notice the difference between Before and After… There’s a single difference that we feel most keenly; and it’s also the difference that future generations will find hardest to grasp. That is the end of absence – the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished."

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