Summary
We live in a crisis driven by technology and bad information that divides us. The Guardian aims to provide honest journalism that connects people and builds community. Good information helps us understand the world and offers hope for a better future.
Highlights
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For a long time, I have felt that something was missing in the public conversation about human connection and community and how they are being eroded. And yet I haven’t been able to articulate it. Thinking and writing have become harder. It’s as if the neurons in my brain don’t connect with each other in quite the same way. I go to check a fact and get instantly diverted by a hundred other distractions on my phone. I find myself unable to devote time to thinking and writing like I used to.
Digital overload, las condiciones contextuales cambian. Siguiendo la lógica de la psicología ecológica o 4E cognition, la capacidad cognitiva, lo que somos capaces de pensar e incluso también nuestra experiencia fenomenológica cambia. Teoría sociocultural. Soy víctima de lo mismo. ¿Qué consecuencias tiene para todos nosotros como humanidad?
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In the end, I managed to write this article thanks to some serious interventions: the force of a deadline, locking my phone in a different room, turning off the internet. But what really got me there, got me to being able to say what I wanted to say, was talking it through with friends and colleagues. The answer to my writer’s block was in front of me all along: all I needed to do was to talk to other people.
Lamentablemente, este recurso también es erosionado por el cambio cultural al cual el ecosistema mediático, al menos, contribuye. Sabido es que las generaciones tienen cada vez menos sexo, comportamientos arriesgados, encuentros sociales, etc. mi tesis es que el celular se come todo eso.
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The figures in the World Inequality Report tell the story: fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity.
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It is hardly controversial, these days, to note that so much digital technology seems designed to produce conflict, to prioritise lies over truth. Rather than unlocking the best in human nature, it seems designed to stoke the worst in us. As the tech critic Jacob Silverman says: “Today’s internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us [that] are hostile to human flourishing.”
A diferencia de comienzos de la década del 10’, hoy por hoy la gente tiene una visión primordialmente negativa del efecto que las plataformas que corren sobre internet tienen sobre nosotros. Esto, en línea con lo que plantea la cita, porque son maquinarias optimizadas para extraer recursos de parte de sus usuarios cautivos. Somos vacas lecheras para una industria omnipresente. El efecto se siente en nuestra misma subjetividad y en nuestra capacidad de generar vínculos y comunidades.
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a whole generation of brilliant minds have spent their working lives getting you to spend a bit longer on their app, rather than creating a good society, in the name of maximising corporate profits.
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We once talked about fake news; now it is reality itself that feels fake. The majority of global citizens doubt their ability to distinguish truth from fiction online. Who can blame them?