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the internet
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“The Architecture of Search”
Tom Vanderbilt explores the internet cloud: “As data centers increasingly become the nerve centers of business and society … the demand for bigger and better ones increases: there is a growing need to produce the most computing power per square foot at the lowest possible cost in energy and resources. All of which is bringing [...]
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Benjamin Kunkel on internet usage, part two
After discussing the internet in an essay published in n+1 issue 7, novelist Benjamin Kunkel reviews three books on life after the advent of digital networks for N1BR issue 3. [...]
Reading recommendation: Benjamin Kunkel in n+1 issue seven
Benjamin Kunkel’s remarkable essay “Drawn and Quartered on the Internet,” in the current issue of n+1>, carefully parses how four common types of internet usage affect public life. Because it is not now available online, I will seek here simply to outline its argument, present a few quotations from it, and encourage you to seek it out in your local bookstore. [...]
