Quote of the Day | 0219

Worries about information overload are as old as information itself, with each generation reimagining the dangerous impacts of technology on mind and brain. From a historical perspective, what strikes home is not the evolution of these social concerns, but their similarity from one century to the next, to the point where they arrive anew with little having changed except the label.

Vaughan Bell, ‘A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook


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