In today's edition of the Guardian, Richard Adams measures the impact of the rapid transformation and the fundamental change in the way we live now.
"To be afraid of speaking on the phone seems now to be comical. Yet the narrator of Proust's In Search of Lost Time records his maid's mistrust of the new technology and her refusal, "however important, however urgent the occasion might be, to make use of the telephone. She would manage to disappear whenever anyone tried to teach her how to use it, as people disappear when it is time for them to be vaccinated."
Full article on the Guardian site
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