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Changes in the technology of communication are occurring so rapidly that we human beings now move through a cloud of messages as densely as a locust-storm. Every new device increases the speed and the outreach of the last, and young people are now governed by the gadgets in their hands, which don't merely contain their lives and also to a great extent dictate them.(1)____(2)____
Of course, the print media still exist. There are old-fashioned people like myself who make a living by writing things, and old-fashioned people like you, who support us by reading, or at any rate buy, what we write. But maybe it's only people like us who are able really to regret for the changes that are sweeping away so much that we depended upon.(3)____(4)____ The rest of the world is caught up in the torrent of gadgets, each new model is designed to relieve its owner of one more source of spiritual exercise or one more obstacle to fun.(5)____(6)____ Memory now exists behind a screen. Very few is stored in our heads, and our recollections drift in cyberspace like asteroids, unconnected to the orbit in which we move.(7)____
Written letters are a thing of past, and essays are downloaded from the sites devoted to them. Research means surfing the web, and as for social life-this is a matter of tweeting and twittering as one drifts through cyberspace.(8)____ Facebook friendships bubble up in a moment, and consist of a mutual agreement between strangers to put themselves on display.(9)____ More and more does it seem that putting yourself on display is what it is all about, which there is nothing more to love and friendship than being mutually visible.(10)____
