I was absorbed enough to read it in less than an hour, without putting it down. Surprisingly touching in some ways (the story of the co-founders of Sony, both having had strokes, communicating silently and remaining friends, for instance). Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is a journalism and media fellow at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. It’s a short read, and I found it worthwhile. Always funny to see that we’re the same throughout generations… In some ways, the societal reaction to them was very similar to that toward mobile phones: they were making people anti-social, they were ruining all kinds of things, they were dangerous, etc. Rebecca lives in Southern California with her family. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Slate, and the Nation, among other publications. The author has quite the nostalgia for personal stereos, but tries to look at them critically and pick apart the nostalgia to see what they really were. Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is the author of Personal Stereo, a cultural history of the Walkman. I was that kid blocking out all the other kids, as a teenager, though by then it was definitely CDs/minidisk/iPod: I was the one in my own little world, and I needed it amidst all the bullying at my school - an aspect of why people might have chosen personal stereos that doesn’t quite get covered here, though the concerns about people going off into their own little world, as well as the pleasures thereof, are covered.

I love the idea of this series, but I chose this one somewhat at random - and it was a winner for me! I’m just old enough to have used a Walkman for a while before I started using things like CDs and a minidisk player, before moving onto an iPod. The Activists Who Embrace Nuclear Power By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow FebruIn 2004, Heather Hoff was working at a clothing store and living with her husband in San Luis Obispo, a small. Is this a real crisis By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow June 24, 20111:00 PM Do Jewish men need to be won back to the synagogue In 2007, an organization called the Men of Reform Judaism published a.

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