• Newsweek lays out an epic case that the Web is making us crazy—with its rapid, evolutionary-scale reordering of our social interactions. [1 of 3]
 

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tech 16 Jul 2012

by Andrew Blum, the author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. WEBSITE  TWITTER  BOOK

 
  • I’ve been thinking about “presence”—what it means today to be there in the flesh. Damien Hirst’s butterfly room, at the Tate, was one answer. [2 of 3]
 
  • But I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this image—on my iPhone screen, with my head down, while walking my dog. The future will be strange. [3 of 3]
 
  • Images (in order): Newsweek July 16, 2012, cover; screen grab of butterfly video via the Tate’s Damien Hirst iPhone app; photo via Zipmeme.
 
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