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This essay is the third part of a series. Here is part 1, part 2, and part 4. They can be read independently. I was born in July 1989, which means I am of the last generation who will remember the time before the internet. The cables and data centers and hyperlinks grew up around me; they grew with me. I find it hard to disentangle the evolution of my psyche from that of the internet. Explaining it to my daughter, who was born in 2017, a year when the world’s largest economy had begun tearing itself apart from the tension of this ever-evolving network, I tell her that the internet is like an alien intelligence. We don’t know exactly what it is; it has just landed, and only the first ship. We are trying to figure out how to talk to it. The first generation of explorers have noted that by making certain finger motions you can make the aliens show you images of cats and clothes, or tell you all the ways the world is falling apart. For a long time, I thought this was all there was to it. I

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox Henrik Karlsson Oct 05, 2022 1,351 77 203 Share This essay is the third part of a series. Here is part 1 , part 2 , and part 4 . They can be read independently. I was born in July 1989, which means I am of the last generation who will remember the time before the internet. The cables and data centers and hyperlinks grew up around me; they grew with me. I find it hard to disentangle the evolution of my psyche from that of the internet. Explaining it to my daughter,

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