We spend more than 50 hours a week watching television, surfing on the Internet and playing video games. Today, entertainment became the first activity of people in all industrialized countries. A synonym of entertainment is distraction, whose etymology means: diversion of attention. In other words, we spend most of our time to divert our mind of something. But what exactly? …
From coercive idiocracy to collective intelligence
Internet, or the triumph of idiocracy On the Internet, you can be anything you want. It’s strange that so many people choose to be stupid. Proverbe Internet Voyeurism, scatology, violence, puerile jokes, unproductive polemics: one of the most disheartening things Internet reveals is the extent of human stupidity. However,while it is truethat the Websometimeslooks like a huge psychic dump, what …
The end of Social Networks
In 1996, I was among the early adopters of the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and I chatted for hours with people connected around the globe. At the time, there were not much more than 30 million users around the globe and interfaces were limited to monochrome screens where dialogs were displayed line by line. Still, it was already an extraordinary …