Technology … the knack of so arranging the world so that we need not experience it. MAX FRISCH, HOMO FABER (1957)
We can no longer assume that reality is a matter of consensus.
We are beginning to see hints of how these new ways of experiencing the world—more mediated, more personalized, more immediate yet less bounded by the realities of the physical world—have altered our understanding of reality.
QAnon is an outlier, but the principle holds for much of our regular social media interactions that bleed into real-world behavior.
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