Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks, and lightweight mashups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned interpersonal interaction.
Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of who each person might become.
- Jaron Lanier in You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
2 comments:
WOW. How true is that!
Julian,
On a related note, I just started reading "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr.
Chilling.
Michael
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