No, it's not exactly Never-Never Land where you can stay a kid all of your life, but its sure close. Instead, according to an article in The New Yorker by Tim Lu we've entered an age of Never-Lost Land, "where no one and nothing gets lost." Lu writes, "Thanks to G.P.S, Bluetooth, and the Internet, it is, day by day, becoming harder both to become lost and to lose things." Sure, it's a relief, Lu argues, but have we lost something in the process of never losing anything.

Lu continues: "While no one wants to lose their dog, or treasured object, maybe there's something to be gained by losing things, in the right dosage, at least … It helps toughen us, and it helps us understand the way the world actually is, which is to say, at times, really quite indifferent to our well-being." He also thinks that by losing things it helps us stay less attached to the material world.

But will we ever reach Never-Lost Land? Wu doesn't think so. Instead he thinks we will live in Nearly-Never-Lost Land, "where loss will be less common, but, when it does happen, even more traumatizing." He ends by saying, "It is something of the paradox of technological progress that, in our efforts to become invulnerable, we usually gain new, unexpected vulnerabilities, leaving us in vaguely the same condition after all."

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Tim Wu, “A World Where Nothing Gets Lost,” The New Yorker (4-21-15)