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Kevin Kelly’s Letter to Children About the Glory of Books and the Superpower of Reading in an Image-Based Digital Culture Holocaust

Kevin Kelly’s Letter to Children About the Glory of Books and the Superpower of Reading in an Image-Based Digital Culture

In his epoch-making 1632 book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican, Galileo made a subtle case for how reading gives us super-human powers. Printed books were a young medium then, still in many ways a luxury for the privil…
bubmag
October 3, 2019
Alex Borstein Holocaust

Alex Borstein

are immigrantsthey are holocaust survivors. My grandmother was in line to be shot into a pit. She said, ‘What happens if I step out of line?’ said, ‘I don’t have the heart to shoot you, but somebody will.’ And she stepped out of l…
bubmag
September 30, 2019