Internet It is part of our lives in a generalized way, at least since the 90s. But it was integrated so much, so much, that even Many of today’s problems are caused by the network.
Mental, physical, even spiritual health: everything becomes affected by the excesses of the Internet. The big companies are complicit in this, while humanity is heading towards a ravine.
But there will come a time when the Internet as we know it will die out and then reach a new level. The teacher Geert Lovink, essay author ExtinctionInternet, He talks about it in his book.
Lovink, a researcher at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, points out that at some point people will move away from the social network and it will have to reinvent itself.
“We lost this war in an extraordinary way,” says Professor Lovink in his analysis. “The Internet is in the hands of technology companies that they care little about the rights of individuals or of society as a whole.”
“This price (paid by humanity) is mainly psychological. Many young people not only suffer from distorted self-esteem and anxiety disorders, but they are also ‘outsourced’ some critical functions of our brain.
According to Lovink, “short-term memory is weakened and our attention is increasingly fragmented.”
Goodbye to freedom of expression on the Internet
Another detail that the Dutch researcher highlights is the loss of freedom of expression, with the increase in social control. Many people distanced themselves from social networks due to the toxicity in the comments; more users decided not to comment more on those platforms.
Countries like the United States and China work with the review of social networks for the issuance of visas. And this form of pressure will end up causing more and more people to decide to avoid using them.
“The observation that Internet is accelerating the world’s problems and it is becoming more and more problematic, it is reaching the state of consensus”, points out Lovink. The next step: the extinction of the current Internet age. What’s next?: the appearance of a new stage.