Human 2.0: Vague Principles of Destructive Evolution
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There are too many stimuli and no way to unhook from the Delivery System. Every thirty seconds or so, TweetDeck chirps and notifies me that some Twitter entity or another has posted something to the web. Facebook is running and constantly updating itself with video, status updates, and one friend who is rebuking me for becoming part of the background noise. He doesn’t know that I’ve downloaded the Twitter plug-in that updates my Facebook status whenever I write a tweet, nor does he know that Brief, my Firefox RSS reader, keeps flashing feed updates at me for no good reason. If I am constantly disseminating information, it is, perhaps, only as a form of purgation lest I suffer neuronal overload and slip into a vegetative state.
I can’t help it. Neither can most of us who’ve fallen victim. That we will suffer enlarged … Read more
