The Age of Earthquakes

The Age of Earthquakes was a very interesting and creative read utilizing mainly images and short phrases to encapsulate the idea that technology is taking over every aspect of human life. What I found interesting was that the use of short sentences and phrases made it so that it would mimic the internet, where everything is very simple and to the point. It gives us a sense that we are already engulfed into the world of technology as I was used to this, getting to the fact that the internet has made us less patient. I would be reading the the pages quickly just like I would on the internet and would sometimes have to go back in order to get the deeper meaning behind the page. This displays the idea that the internet has changed our perception of time. I agree that the internet has sped up our perception of time. The internet can make one hour seem like five minutes when watching a youtube video about something we enjoy while a ten minute lecture could seem like a whole torturous hour. What I found confusing was that the authors had imported new topics that were not related to the book at all. It felt really out of place but maybe that is what the authors meant to do. They wanted to add in these unnecessary pages to make it seem like the internet, where we come across them everyday and disregard them. Some of the topics should have been explored more such as the singularity, but it is possible that the authors had intentionally done this in order to portray the sense that we have adapted to only wanting to know the first layer, rather than getting into the core deep inside.

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