A guide from yours truly, as an Informatics student and humanities enthusiast.
We currently live in an information age. With a tap of the screen, billions of search results are available to us. But do we really need instantaneous access to all this information?
thoughts
- Information Age
- Algorithms and affective manipulation
- Veneration of the material
In brief, humans aren’t necessary for garbage production anymore. Machines work just as well. Display items on shop counters doze in the alluring glare of artificial light, dreaming of garbage bins. Automatic teller machines hum silently. Money is circulating. Lights in offices turn off during lunch hours. There is nothing to remind us of humans anymore, just as there is nothing to remind us of yesterday’s garbage.
The flesh all around me is willing, Angelo, but there is no spirit anywhere.
- Information bias - more information doesn’t mean better decisions
- The overabundance of information gives the illusion of a static, rather than spontaneous, life
- Encouraging conformity
- “All eyes on me”
- Self-centered bubble
- technofeudalism and the death of serendipity
- https://www.bellalee.com/blog/posts/the-record-of-us-all
- Aura farming: hyper awareness of external gaze upon the self, often nonexistent
research
- Human attention span
- Psychology of memory
- Philosophy of memory, time, and space
- The Burnout Society
solution
- Intentional consumption
- We’re selective about what we eat, so why not about the information we consume?
- Active learning
- Regaining autonomy in a system that rewards passivity