Apr
16
Is the creative class killing itself off?
Tim O’Reilly tweeted a link to this article in Seed Magazine about Fermi’s Paradox.
Very quickly, I saw it was a post about society trending towards solipsism and was reminded of Infinite Jest. Take this bit:
Having real friends is so much more effort than watching Friends. Actually colonizing the galaxy would be so much harder than pretending to have done it when filming Star Wars or Serenity. The business of humanity has become entertainment, and entertainment is the business of feeding fake fitness cues to our brains.
The article goes in some unexpected directions and turns out to be quite an interesting little thoughtpiece.
