Before, we saw the Internet as something separate from reality. It was, in the past, considered an entirely different place. But then, it quickly became a necessary part of nearly every human being.
“As more people began to register their existence digitally, a past time turned into an imperative: you have to register digitally to exist,” journalist Jia Tolentino writes in her essay “The I in Internet.” With that, she said, came the commodification of self, which keeps us endlessly tethered to the web, either as a means of self-promotion or as a way of feeding the human compulsion to connect.
What does this kind of development mean? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
Find out more about this over at Fast Company.
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