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June 2025 Issue [Essay]

The Reenchanted World

On finding mystery in the digital age

Illustration by Xiao Hua Yang

[Essay]

The Reenchanted World

On finding mystery in the digital age
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The first time I saw a computer was in 1984. I was fifteen years old and living in a sparsely populated area near a river, miles away from the closest town, in a far-northern country at the very edge of the world. A sign lit up above the convenience store that closed at four o’clock every day; otherwise, the visual stimuli were limited to fields and trees, trees and fields, and to the cars driving along the roads. In autumn and spring it rained so much that the river overflowed its banks—I remember standing in front of the living-room…

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 is the author of several books, including My Struggle. This essay is part of a series supported by the John Templeton Foundation.


 

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