In Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials, Matthew Hennessey delivers a tone poem of sorts about our precomputer world: “We were raised on analog technology—pencils, pens, notepads, books, index cards, the Dewey decimal system, newspapers, magazines, back issues, posters, mail order (sorry, no COD), records and record players, cassette tapes and boom boxes, video stores, landline telephones, answering machines . . .”362 As nonnatives to the internet world, we have no natural immunity to the internet. Our poor 1970s and ’80s brains, formed in the
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