In a recent issue of the excellent Vittles newsletter, Jonathan Nunn wrote about the decline of the restaurant review and its replacement by the restaurant map: “In the last decade, Anglophone food media has seen the review decline and the map rise as the form through which most restaurant writing is mediated.” This shift, Nunn writes, is partially a result of declining budgets, as well as the internet’s democratization of taste.
“Although we may still pretend otherwise, the internet is no longer able to provide information about the world without also shaping it in increasingly fundamental ways” — I mention this to people every time a distinction is made between the “online world” and “the real world”. While one used to reflect the other, we’re well into one being informed by the other. Probably most people will agree which world is doing the informing.
“Although we may still pretend otherwise, the internet is no longer able to provide information about the world without also shaping it in increasingly fundamental ways” — I mention this to people every time a distinction is made between the “online world” and “the real world”. While one used to reflect the other, we’re well into one being informed by the other. Probably most people will agree which world is doing the informing.
Yes exactly! Even though we seem to intuitively know this, it fascinates me how we often still pretend it's not the case.