Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too

Our brains and the contemplative nature of our neocortex, the hard-wiring that searches for meaning or even spirituality, is missing from today’s computers. Most disturbingly, it is not being considered for the future either.

It seems as if we have gotten so sloppy in our efforts to connect with people that we have forgotten about what it is we are connecting to.

No one downloads an app, they download a habit.

Our phones in some ways have made us superhuman. As far as feedback, who on Earth isn’t hopelessly reprogrammed by the feedback loops of our social media? So we’re different. But that’s ok, isn’t it? Let’s try to slow down the dangerous language lamenting the fact that we are not human any more. We are cyborgs, and that means learning to love and t

Social media is a portable version of you and your values. A digital doppelgänger that interacts with the internet on your behalf, even after you have logged off or left a service.

I never thought about what to say online, I thought about which account could say it.

We value speed of processing over depth of computation.

These two versions of myself along with ten different Twitter accounts and at least two different LinkedIn accounts ran my digital life from 2008 to 2012.

We don’t need a virtual reality, we have a reality. We don’t need innovation, we need compassion. We don’t need to fix the problems of the world with technology, we need to fix technology with our human spirit.