We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices

Published: May 21, 2019, 4:31 p.m.

b"A decade ago, Amazon abruptly deleted copies of George Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of its American customers. The move instantly evoked the \\u201cmemory holes\\u201d in the novel's totalitarian dystopia, and it inspired about equal measures of shock, outrage, and jokes. (If a fictional Amazon in a dystopian novel had performed the same mass deletion, critics would have said it was too on the nose.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"