Quotes:
“Liberation from the tasks that had given meaning to life”
The aim of the Internet and its associated technologies was to “liberate” humanity from the tasks — making things, learning things, remembering things — that had previously given meaning to life and thus had constituted life. Now it seemed as if the only task that meant anything was search-engine optimization.
Jonathan Franzen, 2015 from the book Purity
© 2015 Jonathan Franzen