![]() ![]() We maintain deeply intimate relationships with our connected devices. Within minutes of waking up, most of us reach for a smartphone. ![]() ![]() We go on to check them 150 or more times throughout the day, spending all but two waking hours with a mobile device nearby (IDC 2013). As these devices become omnipresent, more and more data about our lives is nearly permanently stored on servers and made searchable by others (including private corporations and government agencies). This idea that everything we do can be measured, quantified, and stored is a fundamental shift in the human condition. For thousands of years we’ve had the notion of accountability to an all-seeing, all-knowing God. He kept tabs on us, for our own salvation. It’s one of the things that made religion effective. Now, in just a few thousand days, we’ve deployed the actual all-seeing, all-knowing network here on earth-for purposes less lofty than His, and perhaps even more effective. We are also in the midst of an unprecedented era of media invention.
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