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xibernetik on Dec 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Computers Will Entertain Us to Death

This reminds me a lot of this article: The Acceleration of Addictiveness (http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html).

Same theme. It goes a little more into talking about societal implication; e.g. there'll be a divide in society as a result between the norm - "addiction" in some regards - and those who can/choose to stay unaddicted.

akkartik on Dec 9, 2011 [–]

Clay Shirky also describes 'society's collective bender' in more optimistic terms: http://google.com/search?q=cognitive+surplus

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