This Digital Life: A Chat With Adam Gopnik
I enjoy the writing of Adam Gopnik. His current piece in the New Yorker, How the Internet Gets Inside Us , delves into the spaces between man and machines: between the internet and inner self. Today the New Yorker hosted a chat with Adam Gopnik. I found the conversation to be fascinating and have archived it below. The New Yorker: Adam Gopnik will be joining us shortly to discuss the Internet. For now, please submit your questions. 2:00 Adam Gopnik : Hey everyone. Glad to be here for the slightly ironic-meta purpose of carrying on a conversation on the internet about the uses of conversations on the internet. Let me start taking questions. A.G. 2:00 [Comment From Doug] When did you first start using the Web? Were you a late or early adopter? 2:01 Adam Gopnik :: Early or late? Somewhere in between I suppose. I went on e-mail in the mid nineties while living in Paris-- my life is now composed of nothing but e-mail and caffiene-- but only really started being addicted as the world did, in...