The New Atlantis:
Place and Placelessness in America (via
Mark T. Mitchell)
by Ari N. Schulman
Since the days of Jack Kerouac, the image of personal freedom has been the driver on the open road. What, then, should we make of the navigation revolution found in GPS and “location-awareness”? Do they expand our freedom, as they seem to promise? Ari N. Schulman looks to
On the Road and
Huckleberry Finn, asking why we aspire to travel, and what we expect to get out of it today.
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