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Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis

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This essay is not real.

Reading Ourselves to Death - The New Atlantis Essay Spring 2022 Published online on June 21, 2022 Reading Ourselves to Death This essay is not real. Kit Wilson Subscriber Only Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Join me in a thought experiment. Imagine you are imprisoned in a room by a despotic regime and allowed contact with the outside world only through a primitive computer. Called a text-only terminal, the computer lets you send and receive as many written messages as you like. It lets you read as many articles as you like. But it can’t display images or videos of any kind, nor play

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