Today, technology allows for a global community unlike any one nation’s in the past. But while we participate in this shrinking world, it’s important not to forget our real neighborhoods and real neighbors—the ones we come home to when we turn off our computers and come home. Print might be nearing obsolescence, but the community newspaper remains an important institution. It reminds us to engage in the physical space we inhabit when we turn away from the digital one. It’s that space we have to share and live in, no matter how fast technology moves.
Talisa Chang in a lovely piece about the debate on obsolescence at Word last week in the Greenpoint Gazette.
