Here is what my “addiction to the algorithm” has produced today:
What have we really created? What psychology might call a double infantile narcissistic regression….
Is it any surprise then that societies are regressing, too, when tech is creating algorithmic addicts stuck in infantile states having counterfeit relationships, not, let’s say, vibrant citizens and neighbours and friends and institutions and trust between them all? … by regressing us to fixated infants searching desperately for the next fix, a dopaminergic approach to human possibility makes us less capable of genuinely adult behaviour: really openly discussing, handling, managing, our many great problems, from inequality to climate change to predatory behaviour.
Or, as I keep saying to anybody who will listen: “Trump: Because the Internet.”
Follow the link for the ‘rest of the story’:
The Dopamine Economy: The Mad Men Created Consumers. We’ve Created Algorithmic Addicts