I think about this often. Isolation breeds a lot of unpleasantness in people, including radical conspiratorial thinking. We often hear talk of information bubbles, but rarely do we connect this to the fact that people are becoming increasingly isolated from one another. I think they're very related though.
Thanks for commenting. I'm fascinated by this topic too, and am very interested to see how we respond to this isolation. What effects it will have on us 10, 20, 50 years from now? Will we look back on this time as a weird era of isolation, or is this only the beginning of something?
My hope is that this era is a strange anomaly. But I think the next decade will determine if we just get an even more cyberpunky world or sort of a tech crash.
I think about this often. Isolation breeds a lot of unpleasantness in people, including radical conspiratorial thinking. We often hear talk of information bubbles, but rarely do we connect this to the fact that people are becoming increasingly isolated from one another. I think they're very related though.
Thanks for commenting. I'm fascinated by this topic too, and am very interested to see how we respond to this isolation. What effects it will have on us 10, 20, 50 years from now? Will we look back on this time as a weird era of isolation, or is this only the beginning of something?
My hope is that this era is a strange anomaly. But I think the next decade will determine if we just get an even more cyberpunky world or sort of a tech crash.