The End of the World News

More and more is happening…. More connectivity occurs now in a calendar year than occurred in a million years a billion years ago. So somehow as we approach the present, we find ourselves in an ever denser realm of activity, interrelationship, connectivity, and the result of this is more of the same: producing a shrinking globe, ever more immersive technologies, dissolution of political, social, gender, class boundaries, of all sorts…. We're about to become unrecognizable to ourselves as a species. And then there's that new Netflix docudrama, The Social Dilemma, that, in the words of one review, "examines the various ways social media and social networking companies have manipulated human psychology to rewire the human brain and what it means for society in general."