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"We're Breaking Up": On Communication Before and After the New Tech

Rebecca Solnit · 9 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Digital technologies may be causing a contraction in the quality of human communication.

    Their wordsPrevious technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it.

  2. Our reading

    The abundance of information can impede the ability to focus or analyze it.

    Their wordsThere is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it.

  3. Our reading

    Corporations and governments are increasingly working together to monitor private communications.

    Their wordsWe are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to make us visible to them.

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