In a Wired article titled - 'Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Die' - the author laments on the erosion of the public commons through technological networking:
"Our collective humanity is dying a little more every day. Technology is killing life on the street -- the public commons, if you please. Chat rooms, text messaging, IM are all, technically, forms of communication. But when they replace yakking over the back fence, or sitting huggermugger at the bar or simply walking with a friend -- as they have for an increasing number of people in "advanced" societies -- then meaningful human contact is lost. Ease of use is small compensation...
...Just because technology makes it possible for us to work 10 times faster than we used to doesn't mean we should do it."
Is our direction an erosion, addition, or shift?
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