by Laurie Allee
In what has to be the biggest irony of 2020 for me, the very digital devices that were causing so much isolation, distraction and harmful addiction are now the ones bringing us closer together, helping us focus our goals and protecting us from illness. The internet, in a way, has become humanity's central nervous system, and our devices are a lifeline to the in-person world now largely out of reach.
I'm not even sure when the crisis is past that we will ever go back to eschewing real life for online simulation. Something profound and life-changing is happening as a side effect of this global pandemic, revolutionary uprising and financial crisis. We're finding out how much we really need each other. We're realizing the scope of our structural failures, demanding not only justice but a complete system overhaul. We're seeing how much more fragile, transient and brief this time on earth turns out to be.
Instead of removing us from real life, our devices are now keeping us in touch with what's real.
Digital technology is the new Analog.
More thoughts on this coming soon.
