We may be reaching the point, suggested by the cultural critics Arthur and Marilouise Kroker in their 1997 book Digital Delirium, where we crash into the “the law of reversal” because our brain’s self-protective reaction to information overload is to shut down: “The faster the tech, the slower the speed of thought . . . the more accelerated the culture, the slower the rate of social change . . . the quicker the digital composition, the slower the political reflection: accelerating digital effects are neutralised by decelerating special human effects.”
- - Warning: brain overload by John Naish, published by the TimesOnline, June 2, 2009.
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