How the Internet Destroyed Our Natural Ability to Navigate the Offline World

The author of ‘The Stars in Our Pockets’ on eschewing the internet, getting lost, and ‘climate change of the mind’

Hope Reese
Jan 27 · 7 min read
Photo: Milan Jovic/Getty Images

WWhen Howard Axelrod was a junior at Harvard, a horrific accident during a game of pickup basketball left him blind in one eye. Five years later…

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