CHAPTER 6

Concluding Remarks

The digital revolution is just getting started, but the digits have already won. No facet of our lives remains untouched. We work, play, keep up with friends, entertain ourselves, learn, and shop, all online. We have even become dependent upon online services and information to receive the news and look up facts, definitions, recommendations and ratings, and explanations for how things work and how to repair them. The convenience, economics, and richness of being online has become too compelling to do without. If you were born before the 1990s, you wonder how you existed before the Internet and the smartphone, and if you were born later, you can’t even imagine life without being online. We even make life decisions ...

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