Anita Singh -- The Telegraph's 'Showbusiness Editor' -- reports from the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia that Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society.
One imagines (or likes to) that his actual statements were a bit more coherent, but regardless, no doubt the man who threw out his TV (and didn't he write blindfolded too, to keep out the distractions ?) is nobody's go-to guy on matters of technological change and the like.
Still, it's fun to hear him spout stuff like:
One imagines (or likes to) that his actual statements were a bit more coherent, but regardless, no doubt the man who threw out his TV (and didn't he write blindfolded too, to keep out the distractions ?) is nobody's go-to guy on matters of technological change and the like.
Still, it's fun to hear him spout stuff like:
"The technicians of finance are making the decisions there. It has very little to do with democracy or the will of the people. And we are hostage to that because we like our iPhones."