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“We’ve begun treating as trivial subjects that we once took seriously,” he says. Naturally, Wasik is worried about coming off like a scolding schoolmarm, especially because his cure for our Internet-fired ADD is a bit obvious: Slow down and consider the long view. His scorn, after all, isn’t just directed at us. “This book was written out of a terror in seeing what the Internet had done to me. It’s a work of self-loathing.”

via The Guy Behind Flash Mobs Tackles His Frankenweb Monster.

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Written by Barbara K. Iverson

May 26th, 2009 at 2:31 am

Posted in Disruptive Tech

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