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Another pub(l)ic spectacle from the New Pantagruel

Christine Rosen on “The Age of Egocasting”

January 19, 2005

from The New Atlantis:
“TiVos and iPods will never destroy us. But our romance with technologies of personalization has partially fulfilled Krutch’s prediction. We haven’t become more like machines. We’ve made the machines more like us. In the process we are encouraging the flourishing of some of our less attractive human tendencies: for passive spectacle; for constant, escapist fantasy; for excesses of consumption.”

This is Christine Rosen on “The Age of Egocasting” in The Japery, a part of The New Pantagruel. Previously: On Austerity and Art in the Reformation | Next: The Foresight of Ivan Illich | TrackBack (0) | Comments (0)


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