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But Powers’ book is not a Luddite manifesto. The writer may question the way we use our gadgets, but he certainly doesn’t condemn it. (“With a few keystrokes, I can bring up an old manuscript from the British Museum. That is miraculous,” he says.) He does, however, recognize the downside of constantly being flooded with new information — or what he calls the “conundrum of connectedness.”
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