Sublime

I was seeing that the means by which we give over our hours and days are the same with which we assault ourselves with information and misinformation, at a frankly inhumane rate.

Social media platforms are designed to be addictive, and the sheer volume of material incentivizes intense cognitive “bites” of discourse calibrated for maximum compulsiveness over nuance or thoughtful reasoning.

One day, James Williams—the former Google strategist I met—addressed an audience of hundreds of leading tech designers and asked them a simple question: “How many of you want to live in the world you are designing?” There was a silence in the room. People looked around them. Nobody put up their hand.

C’est au point qu’un Rhodes Scholar [36] comme Joe O’Shea de l’université d’État de Floride – étudiant en philosophie, s’il vous plaît – admet sans vergogne non seulement qu’il ne lit pas de livres, mais aussi qu’il ne s’en sent pas particulièrement le besoin. Pourquoi s’en faire quand on peut trouver en un rien de temps sur Google les passages

jamais aucun média n’a été programmé comme le Net pour disperser notre attention à ce point, et avec une telle force.