{"id":20810,"date":"2016-01-16T21:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T05:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/why-digital-overload-is-now-central-to-the-human-condition"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:15:44","slug":"why-digital-overload-is-now-central-to-the-human-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/why-digital-overload-is-now-central-to-the-human-condition","title":{"rendered":"Why Digital Overload Is Now Central to the Human Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-digital-overload-is-now-central-to-the-human-condition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine: What happens when you\u2019re in 2027 on the job competing with other AI; and there is so much information exposed to you that you\u2019re unable to scan &amp; capture all of it onto your various devices and personal robot. And, the non-intrusive nanobot for brain enhancement is still years away. Do you finally take a few hundred dollars &amp; get the latest chip implant requiring a tricky surgery for your brain or wait for the nanobot? These are questions that folks will have to assess for themselves; and this could actually streamline\/ condition society into a singularity culture. <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/bTVAjhb\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/bTVAjhb<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A mom pushes a stroller down the sidewalk while Skyping. A family of four sits at the dinner table plugged into their cell phones with the TV blaring in the background. You get through two pages in a book before picking up your laptop and scrolling through a bottomless stream of new content.<\/p>\n<p>Information technology has created a hyper-connected, over-stimulated, distracted and alienated world. We\u2019ve been living long enough with internet-connected computers and other mobile devices to have begun to take it for granted.<\/p>\n<p>But already the next wave is coming, and it promises to be even more immersive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/01\/15\/why-grappling-with-digital-overload-is-now-part-of-the-human-condition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine: What happens when you\u2019re in 2027 on the job competing with other AI; and there is so much information exposed to you that you\u2019re unable to scan &amp; capture all of it onto your various devices and personal robot. And, the non-intrusive nanobot for brain enhancement is still years away. Do you finally take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1512,4,47,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68828,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810\/revisions\/68828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}