Throughout human history, there’s always been a lack of information. Then, somewhere around 2005, there was this brief moment where we had the perfect amount - and ever since, it’s been far too much.
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Did he think it in the shower?
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Did he think it in the shower?
Probably in the ice bath
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I personally think that moment was in 1993, when the Encarta CD was released.
It had a huge amount of information, but it didn't feel overwhelming.
The internet also didn't feel overwhelming.
In 2005, I think the internet already felt overwhelming.
But I guess if you weren't the nerdy type crawling the web, then social media and smartphones were the game changer and I would put the date closer to 2010.
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I'm glad you atleast got home.
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I'm glad you atleast got home.
One time I fell asleep on the front lawn.
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Seems like the kind of post I'd expect you average showerthought-enjoyer to not mind seeing on their feed.
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One time I fell asleep on the front lawn.
Close enough
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I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams
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More like, there was a brief window when the growth in accessibility of information outpaced the growth in our ability to abuse it.
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One time I fell asleep on the front lawn.
Yours or someone else’s?
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Kojima warned us about this.
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Counterpoint: "Any thought you have in the shower is a shower thought"
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I personally think that moment was in 1993, when the Encarta CD was released.
It had a huge amount of information, but it didn't feel overwhelming.
The internet also didn't feel overwhelming.
In 2005, I think the internet already felt overwhelming.
But I guess if you weren't the nerdy type crawling the web, then social media and smartphones were the game changer and I would put the date closer to 2010.
absolutely, the Iphone was the game changer.
the internet is as useful as it's ever been it just stopped being a physical place you go, the computer, to something you carry with you everywhere as another layer of reality.
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I personally think that moment was in 1993, when the Encarta CD was released.
It had a huge amount of information, but it didn't feel overwhelming.
The internet also didn't feel overwhelming.
In 2005, I think the internet already felt overwhelming.
But I guess if you weren't the nerdy type crawling the web, then social media and smartphones were the game changer and I would put the date closer to 2010.
I miss the pre social media internet so goddamn much
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Flooding the zone with shit
