Title: Welcome to the post-digital world, an exhilarating return to civility – via Facebook and Lady Gaga
Context: Keeping it real is not just a good idea, it’s the law. According to the guy who wrote this article anyway.
Synopsis: The hours a day we spend hunched over our keyboards bathed in the ice-blue glow of our pixilated flatscreen reflections is surely rewiring our brains, right? I mean come on people! You don’t read books anymore. You don’t go to concerts anymore. You don’t visit real live museums or zoos or palm readers anymore. You don’t have to! Our lives now exist in a digital-what’s that you say? You DO read books?!?! You DO go to concerts?!?! You DO check out Matisse, orangutans and the prescient Miss Chantale Divine all live and in person?!?! Well how about that. So what you’re telling me is that the real world isn’t just a pale imitation of the richer, more exciting and vibrant one on the far side of my monitor? Huh. I’m not saying I don’t believe you, but you’ll forgive me if I Google that first just to verify…
Best Bit: “Post-digital is not anti-digital. It extends digital into the beyond.”
via guardian.co.uk
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