Keen: How The Internet Is Destroying Us
It’s supposed to bring humanity to the next level. We now couldn’t live with out it. But…
Click here for reuse options!You need only have read the stories this month about how smart TVs can spy onus in our living rooms to realise that Orwell’s vision in Nineteen Eighty-Four, of a Big Brother society, is becoming a reality.Because such TVs are connected to the internet, they can watch us and listen to us, then beam that information around the world for companies to use for commercial gain.
And thanks to the explosion in social media, rather than creating more democracy, the internet is empowering mob rule.
This month, after years of social networks being scarred by appalling personal abuse and bullying – leading to several suicides – Twitter, which has 288 million users a month, finally admitted there was ‘no excuse’ for its failure to stop its users sending vile messages to the targets of their hatred…
The personal lives of three billion internet users have been transformed by the incredible convenience of email, social media, e-commerce and mobile apps.
Yes, we all rely on and even love our ever-shrinking and increasingly powerful mobile devices. Yes, the internet can, if used critically, be a source of great enlightenment in terms of the global sharing of ideas and information…
But the hidden negatives outweigh the positives. Under our noses, one of the biggest ever shifts in power between people and big institutions is taking place, disguised in the language of inclusion and transparency.
Rather than providing a public service, the architects of our digital future are building a society that is a disservice to almost everyone except a few powerful, wealthy owners.
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rg9rts February 21st, 2015 at 15:16
I don’t use social media AT ALL. The internet such as this site is more satisfying personally since the TV doesn’t answer when I yell at it, and here they can yell back.
rg9rts February 21st, 2015 at 16:16
I don’t use social media AT ALL. The internet such as this site is more satisfying personally since the TV doesn’t answer when I yell at it, and here they can yell back.
Boehner-Monkey February 21st, 2015 at 19:00
I aven’t oticed anything ifferent ince I ot addicted to the internet
Boehner Monkey February 21st, 2015 at 20:00
I aven’t oticed anything ifferent ince I ot addicted to the internet
Suzanne McFly February 21st, 2015 at 19:33
It is called moderation, drinking too much water can kill you, it’s called drowning.
mea_mark February 21st, 2015 at 20:09
Hyponatremia
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill/
Suzanne McFly February 21st, 2015 at 21:12
Show off lol
Suzanne McFly February 21st, 2015 at 20:33
It is called moderation, drinking too much water can kill you, it’s called drowning.
mea_mark February 21st, 2015 at 21:09
Hyponatremia
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill/
Suzanne McFly February 21st, 2015 at 22:12
Show off lol
eyelashviper February 22nd, 2015 at 10:36
We all have choices, and learned early in life how to make decisions that were appropriate for our ages, with good parenting, education, and access to information.
Today, however, the access to a world of data, some actually useful, is overwhelming, and without the abilities to utilize the data effectively, we become little more than puppets and robots.
So many generations now have been raised by the media, social networking, and an endless supply of screens to entertain, inform, misinform, etc., so we have a world of younger people whose lives are limited to the words and photos they send out, and to the images and words they see. This is far worse than the soma pill, even prisons and book burning…..people now live in cyber world and are unable to live and act in the real world.
eyelashviper February 22nd, 2015 at 11:36
We all have choices, and learned early in life how to make decisions that were appropriate for our ages, with good parenting, education, and access to information.
Today, however, the access to a world of data, some actually useful, is overwhelming, and without the abilities to utilize the data effectively, we become little more than puppets and robots.
So many generations now have been raised by the media, social networking, and an endless supply of screens to entertain, inform, misinform, etc., so we have a world of younger people whose lives are limited to the words and photos they send out, and to the images and words they see. This is far worse than the soma pill, even prisons and book burning…..people now live in cyber world and are unable to live and act in the real world.