Your attention please
Where previous entertainment technologies like cinema or television were intended to capture their audience’s attention for a period, the smartphone demands your entire life.
James Marriott • The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
No article has shaken me this year the way The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society has. Really fucked my shit UP.
We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up seeing them as a path towards fame and glory. Another consequence of how thoroughly the internet has flattened pop culture, politics, and real life violence. All of it now is just another meme you can participate in to go viral.
Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme
Bertrand Russell - Message To Future Generations (1959)
youtu.bedisorganized notes on a low information diet – whygodwhy
whygodwhy.com
“That’s enough screen time for today,” you tell your kid, urging them to turn off the video-game console or iPad. As for what they should do instead, you are not quite sure. And what about you? If only you could put down your phone and listen to your spouse, or read a book, or embrace the sensation of your own existence, then surely you would be a... See more
Ian Bogost • You’re Getting ‘Screen Time’ Wrong
From Bored
Your mind is programmable. If you’re not programming it, then someone else will program it for you