"We never thought to ask how will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging."
So said Doris Lessing, speaking on being awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
It is an "interesting" proposition and not without some validity. As Lessing is also recorded as saying by The Guardian:
"She contrasted her experiences in Zimbabwe and other parts of Africa, where people were hungry and clamouring for books even though they might have no food, where schools might not have a single book and a library might be a plank seat under a tree."
Different times, yes, but the underlying thoughts of Lessing ought not be ignored. Read the full report of what Lessing said, here, from The Guardian, and here in the SMH.
So said Doris Lessing, speaking on being awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
It is an "interesting" proposition and not without some validity. As Lessing is also recorded as saying by The Guardian:
"She contrasted her experiences in Zimbabwe and other parts of Africa, where people were hungry and clamouring for books even though they might have no food, where schools might not have a single book and a library might be a plank seat under a tree."
Different times, yes, but the underlying thoughts of Lessing ought not be ignored. Read the full report of what Lessing said, here, from The Guardian, and here in the SMH.
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