No Sense of Place

"The End of Reading Is Here"

Plain English with Derek Thompson, 28 July 2026.

Derek Thompson names No Sense of Place by Josh Myrowitz while grouping Myrowitz with Marshall McLuhan as thinkers from the 1960s–80s who predicted that electronic media would destabilize hierarchies and scramble the power to spread information. Rose Horowitz goes on to describe their shared view that electronic media would produce a different kind of person than literate societies had, connecting power to spread information and privileging young people over oral tradition's conservatism.

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