Lawson Chapman (@lawsonchapman)
The internet used to be an escape from reality.
Now, reality is an escape from the internet.
I often think of the Noah Smith quote: “Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”
Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
We’re lost in the garden of forking memes, and the idea of linear progress along a single historical time line seems like a quaint artifact from a much simpler era. Grand visions of the future are few and far between; the pop cultural landscape is littered with post-apocalyptic dystopias. If we want to make sense of how we got here, we have to... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.