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Nicholas Carr
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Friendship in the Age of Digital Simulation
James Ensor, Masks Confronting Death.
The new version of Mark Zuckerberg — I’ll call him alt-Mark — is peddling a new version of the metaverse. The behind the virtual world, as you may hazily recall, was that we’d be digitally transformed into legless cartoon characters who would fly around a cartoon planet having sword fights and doing other supposedly fun things. It was a reboot
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“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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