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We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers, and the consequences of that were profound.
Utter extinction, the fate that befell the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, is a concept universally understood, as clean as a broken bone. A species existed; now it’s gone. But the gradual ebbing of abundance strains language. Some researchers have called such losses defaunation; others know it as biological annihilation. The biologist E. O. Wilson favored Eremocene: the age of loneliness, a near and desolate future in which humankind bestrides an empty world, or perhaps drives over it.
This group, the millennials, represent the biggest population bubble in fifty years. Sixty-four percent of college-educated millennials choose first where they want to live, and only then do they look for a job.4 Fully 77 percent of them plan to live in America's urban cores.
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