Douglas Rushkoff - Present Shock - 0 views
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Julie Lindsay on 08 May 13Rushkoff identifies the five main ways we're struggling, as well as how the best of us are thriving in the now: 4. Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots suffer more burnout than real-world pilots, as they attempt to live in two worlds - home and battlefield - simultaneously. We all become overwhelmed until we learn to distinguish between data flows (like Twitter) that can only be dipped into, and data storage (like books and emails) that can be fully consumed.