Paul Daley reflects in the Guardian today on one of the paradoxes of our times: how the quixotic quest for digital “friendship” on antisocial media seems to make people lonelier. He likens it to an addiction to dangerous drugs.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/social-media-addiction-loneliness
We’ll be open again on Thursday to help you break the habit!
I totally agree with what Paul Daley is saying.
The experience that potentially everything in our life is taken over by some kind of technology.
The hyper connectivity.
The FOMO – Social Media running our life.
The latest now with AI.
In this connection I would like to point to this interview that I listened to the other day:
A journalist did A.I. Maxxing for a year and is interviewed by the comedian Hasan Minhaj about the experience.
It is frightening most of what she says on these subjects:
Waymo, Vibecoding, Wearables, Robots, Chatbots, Children and A.I., Data centers.
And the mad conclusion.
We now live in “The Age of Intelligence,” as Sam Altman said recently, which is now taking over from “The Age of Information.”
The consequence unfortunately: “We all turn more stupid.”
After this, the comedian comes out as the guy with insights.
Maybe you have to be a comedian to make sense of all this.By the way, I love my daily routine in the library in Malmö, where I read the newspaper together with the other “homeless” guys. Taking two hours off from being connected and enjoying touching a piece of paper with information stuck to it.
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