Stream-of-Carelessness: How the Touchscreen is Changing the World
Is social media changing our language? Dale Lately looks at slanguage, speakwrite and the unlikely precedent of Virginia Woolf’s txt spk.
The End of the Word As We Know It: Reading in the Age of Distraction
A decade ago the web remained quarantined indoors, anchored to desktops by Ethernet umbilical cords, and a good novel could still help to pass the time on a heaving tube ...
The Tower of Babble: Borges’ Library and the Blogosphere
Seventy years ago the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) wrote “The Library of Babel”, a short story about a cosmically vast library that contained all possible books — a ...