How to end your extremely online era - Tommy Dixon

A somewhat practical guide

“At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people who do not love us but want our money.” — David Foster Wallace Chemin montant (Gustave Caillebotte, 1881) About a year ago, I wrote an essay predicting the end of our extremely online era. Much to my surprise and horror, it went viral1. I…

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