The article discusses the excessive electronic communication experienced by American users, highlighting that they spend around 6-7 hours daily on screen-based activities, communicating or consuming content. The shift from traditional phone calls to modern methods has resulted in both positive effects, such as increased productivity and innovation, and negative impacts, including echo-chambers, online bullying, and reduced face-to-face interactions. This transformation signifies an evolutionary change in human civilization, where societal adaptations occur more rapidly compared to individual biological evolution.
Every one of those hours is spent connecting in some fashion with other humans, whether communicating directly or consuming content other humans have created.
Political echo-chambers, online bullying, flaming, isolation from decreased face-to-face encounters, online radicalization, cybercrime, decreased attention spans, and proliferation of misinformation are just a few of the phenomena that have emerged on the negative side.
On the positive side, productivity and the pace of innovation have skyrocketed as we share a staggering amount of knowledge.
Human evolution is happening right in front of us; major changes to humans as a social species can occur much faster.
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