Worries of Digital Media

I've always had a difficult time concentrating on any subject. I'd always blamed it on my ADD, but why isn't it just me that's having difficulty concentrating? Why do all the people my age hate reading books? Why have the articles on the internet gotten so much shorter than they used to be?

You can never be truly bored with a computer and an internet connection. You can always find some sort of new information that will stimulate your mind, making you somewhat content. But that's the problem. Most of us can only get somewhat content. We are always bombarded with links and millions, even billions of search results, how can we possibly be content with the surface when we know we are looking into a bottomless pit of information.

I think the problem arises with the internet because we are accustomed to having instant information to things but at the same time there is so much information that we just don't know what information we want. I realize that if I were reading a magazine, I would probably read most of the articles, though online, I just skim and glance over and over look things, later I can't even remember what I was looking at. So the problem is that we are addicted to instant information but we are just too confused on how to get it.

We are like lightning. If your swimming in a swimming pool during a thunderstorm and there is plenty of metal around you then you are safer than you might think because when lighting strikes it is drawn to metal objects but because there is so much metal around you, the lightning get's confused and so it is more likely to strike in the middle of an open field than at one of the metal objects. Our minds become fast and rapid like lighting and we get confused because of the massive amount of choice and we end up most of the time making the wrong decision.

I have a lot of other worries about digital media, but this one is by far the most prominent and powerful worry that I have. I can see a world in which our memories are gone and we have to rely on computers to help us, maybe with computer chips in our heads. It just seems like this technology has brought a dead end to evolution and we will never evolve any further in a positive direction but only a negative and we will just keep changing our environment to cater to our needs instead of changing ourselves. This is also true in the digital environment. Such as how Twitter has replaced Blogging for the most part. People just don't have the attention to read blogs so instead of adapting and dealing with this problem they have, they just moved onto Twitter instead.