What if we just blacked out the internet? Went back to letter writing, reading actual books, only socializing with those around us, and creating rather than consuming?
Today in my Music and New Media class we talked about our media consumption now versus 5 years ago and it got me thinking about how much technology I use now. It's sickening. My next thought was about how much people rely on, use, and consume via media. Does it stifle our creativity? Does it kill our social skills? Does it slowly rot our brains?
I don't want to find out, but in such a media-dependent society, how do you compete without also embracing it, using it, marketing through it, selling through it, etc.? How can you survive in the industry if you aren't on the internet using those channels that everyone sees?
When a goldfish has an attention span of 8 seconds and the average person has an attention span of 7 seconds something is seriously wrong.
It's like our generation is in a catch 22. We grow dependent because we have to in order to succeed but does that dependency lower our ability to succeed, grow, develop, create, inspire, be better? I feel stuck.
Just a thought.
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