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What we lose when we no longer get lost


What we lose when we no longer get lost
The smartphone has made getting around a city safer, but at what cost to human experience?
 
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The anthropologist Franco La Cecla wrote of the fear of being lost as “sometimes stronger and more terrifying than the act itself
“One day I was walking among rows of identical houses; I was lost,” the narrator of Italo Calvino’s
Invisible Cities mourns. Calvino was writing about the fictional city of Cecilia, and through it Venice, but he could have been describing staggering along interchangeable cul-de-sacs in any number of postwar suburbs. ....

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