What is the first thing you do in the morning? I open my notebook, feed the cats until it connects to the internet, teach some lessons online, check Twitter, Facebook, Emails, News Feeds and then finally make a coffee and breakfast. And even then I am connected and read the news online.
3 or 4 years ago I made a coffee first, had a long breakfast, read the newspaper, the wordstress is on paper, and then went out the house to teach. It feels like it must have been in another life.
The NY Times published an article about that yesterday and it is really strange to reflect on how the internet and the cloud have changed the way we go through the day. And there is even more.
In a second article Verlyn Klinkenborg asks herself what she did 25 years ago. Today we are constantly waiting for a tweet, an email, a blog post etc. Being “updated” all the time is another aspect that changed the way we live today. 25 years ago when we left the house we were disconnected. No cellphone. What did we do back then?
The thing is: when you want to be edgy these days, you have to do something crazy like shutting down your laptop and reading a book. Revolution, baby.
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