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Re: Will the internet eat your brain?

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Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> Wrote in message:
> 
> Isn't this at least partly because real lives have become more
> disconnected, with people living in (at best, if they are lucky) minimal
> families, when most of human evolution took place in extended kinship
> groups of mutually-dependent individuals? Are we using social media to
> re-establish the hunter gatherer connections which prevailing political
> and economic ideas have made more distant than ever?
> 


Holy crap, the bullshit is so deep in that article I almost need
 to get out my boots to wade through it.

Take a valium, lady.  Seems to me we'll look back at articles like
 this and laugh, much the way we laugh at the following:

TVs in every home destroying the fabric of human existence
Newspapers eliminating political exchange through talk
Remember when violent tv shows were a threat?
Remember when foul language in rock music was going to destroy
 human society?

Seriously.  Each of these things had an impact, but none has - so
 far- destroyed the human race.  More likely, people will learn
 how to absorb technology when it's useful and deal with the side
 effects.  Maybe that couple doesn't fight because there's an easy
 way to figure out where the restaurant is using some maps
 service?

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Will the internet eat your brain? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-28 17:49 +0000
  Re: Will the internet eat your brain? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-08-28 19:26 +0100
    Re: Will the internet eat your brain? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-28 20:56 +0000

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