There's always something in new technology that promotes anxiety on the one hand, but also grieving on the other. With the internet, I think we can remember a time when people said "I don't use email," or "I'm not going to get email." I once had to do a piece on people who had never used the internet and refused to start and I found three people. But when I talked to them, they had used it, at some point or another. It's almost impossible to stay off the internet entirely. We feel as though we didn't get to make a decision. There's this new dawn and we all have to embrace it.
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, in… - Virginia Heffernan
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, in…
- Virginia Heffernan
There's always something in new technology that promotes anxiety on the one hand, but also grieving on the other. With the internet, I think we can r… - Virginia Heffernan
There's always something in new technology that promotes anxiety on the one hand, but also grieving on the other. With the internet, I think we can r…
People act as if the internet will never die, that the Cloud will never die. In the face of that, much of human civilization, including our human bod… - Virginia Heffernan
People act as if the internet will never die, that the Cloud will never die. In the face of that, much of human civilization, including our human bod…
When I first got on the internet as a tween, I wasn't comfortable showing up in social spaces. I didn't have a loud voice. As a function of my youth … - Virginia Heffernan
When I first got on the internet as a tween, I wasn't comfortable showing up in social spaces. I didn't have a loud voice. As a function of my youth …
Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) … - Virginia Heffernan
Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) …
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. - Virginia Heffernan
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.
One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as perpetually in motion and changing, … - Virginia Heffernan
One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as perpetually in motion and changing, …
If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard. - Virginia Heffernan
If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.
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