the techno-social environment
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters
the techno-social environment
Digital computers are fundamentally disconnected from the world; they are operating entirely on the abstraction of it. They are being fed pictures of the world. It is like someone living in a box and knowing the world only through photos of it. It is two fundamentally different things. It is incredibly easy to manipulate, and incredibly reductive.... See more
Karl Ove Knausgaard • The Reenchanted World
A “mirror-world” we’re all contributors to re-producing.
We are depleted by the pace and structure of contemporary life, particularly by how spatial and temporal boundaries that provided modest respites from the demands others could place on us have been eroded by the capacities of digital technology. Now we are always on and always available, our freneticism masquerading as flexibility. We are also... See more
L. M. Sacasas • What You Get Is the World
The experience of boredom is contingent. It is culturally, socially, and institutionally produced…Our age features a set of technologies and social conditions that work together to maximize our boredom if we are not constantly diverted from it.
The Sirens Call
the ease of exchanging digital speech has shifted the focus of mass communication from reflections to reflexes, from substance to attitude. Social media demand that everyone relate to others, to their ideas, to their troubles and achievements—indeed, to their very existence.
Andrey Mir • The Viral Inquisitor
The individual user relies on the information flowing through their phone to make their choices, and their decisions then feed back into the overall system.
The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age | Aeon Essays
Revenge of the Followers
nytimes.com
most of my life is inextricable from the internet, and its mazes of incessant forced connection – this feverish, electric, unlivable hell.
The I in the Internet
From, The Master Switch. Mid-century TV networks were probably the most powerful, centralized information system in history.
Internet Overexposure Syndrome
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