? Is technology or culture the problem?
The return of the visual culture at the expense of the written revives the old medieval subordination of the text to the pictorial. Although people today are not predominantly illiterate, in as much as mass schooling separates us from the Middle Ages, many utilise reading and writing for the most mundane utilitarian tasks and have turned away from
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"Our various technological prostheses become extensions of our absentmindedness as they become more refined." - Duncan Reyburn
(Jono from Sketchplanations).
Heidegger believed that modern technology uprooted and dislodged man from his time and place and thus his spiritual grounding. When he said “only a god can save us,” he feared that something the pre-Socratic Greeks grasped was being lost or forgotten through the general triumph of technology. He called this “Seinsvergessenheit,” or the
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Thesis: We are not addicted to the internet or smart phones. Rather, our will power is utterly depleted by the persistent cognitive, emotional, and moral demands they make of us.
Tweets From LM Sacasas · @LMSacasastwitter.com“The problem is that so many people spend so much time online that they fail to remember that people are all human at the end of the day, and treating someone else with a modicum of respect is actually a far better way to get them to see your position than flinging at them with fire and vitriol.” — Carl Benjamin
But a shift has happened nonetheless: the Internet used to reflect our real-world lives and the physical world. Increasingly, our real lives and physical worlds are just a reflection of our digital ones.
