People act as if the internet will never die, that the Cloud will never die. In the face of that, much of human civilization, including our human bodies, seem so defective and mortal and constantly fading. Our lifespan is 80… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
There's always something in new technology that promotes anxiety on the one hand, but also grieving on the other. With the internet, I think we can remember a time when people said "I don't use email," or "I'm not going to get email." I once had to do a piece on people who had never used the internet and refused… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
“Unless you are rich and can convalesce in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you at your… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
When I first got on the internet as a tween, I wasn't comfortable showing up in social spaces. I didn't have a loud voice.… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
People act as if the internet will never die, that the Cloud will never die. In the face of that, much of human civilization,… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as perpetually in… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
