Updated 3 years ago
“If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with anything we can find – the whirr of a roulette wheel or the prick of a syringe.”
As someone who has has struggled with various forms of addiction, this is an amazingly insightful article. For me an ADHD cyberpunk version of instant access interconnected virtual reality was preferable to the slow old fashioned one at a time telephone game reality. The Internet has been a step in the right direction of interconnection, and as Moore’s Law cranks on to the inevitable singularity, our inner thoughts become more shareable, the solution will evolve. But the ultimate solution will always be, Reach out and touch someone
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html
