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If anything, the internet has made us more insular, as every moment in every place can be substituted with the familiar dopamine drip from our friendly informat
by rm_-rf_slash 9y ago
If anything, the internet has made us more insular, as every moment in every place can be substituted with the familiar dopamine drip from our friendly information dealers.
In other words, we used to see the Grand Canyon. Now we see it on a screen through a camera, and we spend the rest of our time at the Grand Canyon by posting about it on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit etc.
- randcraw 9y agoI see your point. For many it's been all too easy for the Net to foster a virtual vicarious view of other peoples' lives. I'm old enough (60) for my early days to have been shaped more by a tangible Real World than an electronic one. I can see how those who grew up after the rise of Networked iLife might base their world view on less tangible experience, presuming they know more about hands-on cultural physics than the watching life through the World Wide Window allows.