{"id":2886,"date":"2018-10-04T09:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T13:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2019-03-28T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T16:02:22","slug":"what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-generation-to-remember-life-before-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/2018\/10\/04\/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-generation-to-remember-life-before-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"What it feels like to be the last generation to remember life before the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Mirani, a reporter for Quartz in London,<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/252456\/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-generation-to-remember-life-before-the-internet\/\"> reviews and offers his own thoughts on Michael Harris\u2019 \u201cThe End of Absence: Reclaiming What We\u2019ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection.\u201d<\/a> Instead of focusing on \u201cmillennials\u201d or \u201ckids these days,\u201d Harris\u2019 book is about the people born before 1985 who know what life was like before the Internet, and must now navigate life with it. He makes observations on his own heightened anxieties, fears, and his month-long break from technology, dubbed \u201canalog August.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Michael Harris&#8230;argues that &#8216;technology is neither good nor evil. The most we can say about it is this:\u00a0<em>It has come<\/em>.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Mirani, a reporter for Quartz in London, reviews and offers his own thoughts on Michael Harris\u2019 \u201cThe End of Absence: Reclaiming What We\u2019ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection.\u201d Instead of focusing on \u201cmillennials\u201d or \u201ckids these days,\u201d Harris\u2019 book is about the people born before 1985 who know what life was like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-and-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}