Our hyperconnected lives have been rewired for the digital age. We have seen people getting obsessed about being wired as the abstract digital universe has become a part of our identity. What excites us the most is what we have learnt from the virtual world by ourselves to build our own identity to live better lives in the real world.
Our little devices in our pockets are so much psychologically powerful that they can change not only what we do but also who we are.
Technology has altered the flow of time. This in turn has given us more granular understanding of the material world. And this granular understanding has generated dreams of data that our brains can no longer comprehend and for which we need more and more computers. We all know that internet has shrunk space as well as time. Far over there is now here. News from Germany is streamed on our smart phone, whether we are in India or in Berlin . We are left with no distinction of past, present or future. We are left with this exact moment everywhere. This moment that we all call as “Digital Now.”
How do we prioritise this landscape of Digital Now? This Digital Now is always a few seconds ahead as it gives us what’s already trending and the news from different time zones. Sometimes technology tries to perpetuate the illusions for those who have it and then they realise it.
For us as individuals who live in this world of digital now and spend most of our waking moments in it, the challenge is to live in two streams of time that are parallel and simultaneous as the internet and social media are shaping our relationship, personal lives and sense of self.
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