Changes in the technology of communication are occurring so rapidly that we human beings

now move through a cloud of messages as densely as a locust-storm. Every new device increases【M1】______ the speed and the outreach of the last, and young people are now governed by the gadgets in their hands, which dont merely contain their lives and also to a great extent dictate them.【M2】______ Of course, the print media still exist. There are old-fashioned people like myself who make a living by writing things, and old-fashioned people like you, who support us by reading, or at any rate buy, what we write. But maybe its only people like us【M3】______ who are able really to regret for the changes that are sweeping【M4】______ away so much that we depended upon. The rest of the world is caught up in the torrent of gadgets, each new model is designed to【M5】______ relieve its owner of one more source of spiritual exercise or one【M6】______ more obstacle to fun. Memory now exists behind a screen. Very few is stored in our heads, and our recollections drift in cyberspace【M7】______ like asteroids, unconnected to the orbit in which we move. Written letters are a thing of past, and essays are downloaded【M8】______ from the sites devoted to them. Research means surfing the web, and as for social life—this is a matter of tweeting and twittering as one drifts through cyberspace. Facebook friendships bubble up in a moment, and consist of a mutual agreement between strangers to【M9】______ put themselves on display. More and more does it seem that putting yourself on display is what it is all about, which there is【M10】______ nothing more to love and friendship than being mutually visible.

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