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🤔 ICYMI from April, a good (long-form!) essay about how # to # (in general, but also # and # in particular) is affecting human # spans in a negative way.

💡 Raises an interesting idea about it causing or reinforcing cultural "learned helplessness" that crosses over into many other areas of modern tech-facilitated life. (Something @lightweight has long discussed.)

🔖 Take a read this weekend and tell us what you think?

https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/awakening-moment-to-how-smartphones-fragment-our-attention/

My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span

I recently realized that absorbing the constant inflow of information from my smartphone, always readily available in my pocket to capture any free moment of attention, had fragmented my attention span.
Tom Johnson
#smartphones #socialmedia #tech #addiction #attention @Dave Lane 🇳🇿

"... take today’s social media, add a splash of sophisticated 3D, fold in a plethora of options for entertainment and gaming, garnish it all with data-driven personalization, and you are all set to take away your order of a supersized social media network, the Metaverse."

- #

https://thedecisionlab.com/insights/technology/brave-new-world-how-the-metaverse-may-shape-our-psychology

# # #

Brave New World: How the Metaverse May Shape Our Psychology - The Decision Lab

The Metaverse is the hottest topic in tech and beyond. But if we don’t plan for the dawn of this new world, we risk repeating past mistakes
The Decision Lab
#metaverse #socialmedia #PreetiKotamarthi #datafarming

👴 OK kids...

Before #, before #, before the #, we had the #.

If you wanna learn from those who came before, here's a comprehensive 5-hour # about bulletin board systems. 🤓

(Of course, given the world back then it's mostly 5 hours of old white guys. So it goes!)

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=nO5vjmDFZaI

BBS the Documentary [Full HD]

The BBS (bulletin board system) scene of the 80s and 90s was a magical time. Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who…
Invidious
#Mastodon #socialmedia #web #bbs #documentary

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