Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing... →
Douglas Rushkoff
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming... →
The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every... →
Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not... →
'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter... →
The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork... →
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure... →
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less... →
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some... →
The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the... →