Especially considering our Google/1984 discussion, I am particularly interested in the paradox of technology and globalization. The world has been rendered so small, but at the same time- there no longer seems to be one, single reality. We live in a society that allows us to pick and choose our news, unlike Winston’s 1984, and we are governed by different passions to pass along news to others, or what information we want to digest ourselves. We have the capability to choose what reality we want to subject ourselves to.
I am particularly intrigued by True Enough’s concept of American niches, and why we look for what we look for, especially online, and whether or not we find anything. There’s a huge amount of reality readily available on the Internet, but there is no way to be aware of all of it, or even recognize all of it (or any of it) as truth.
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