Existential Onlife

Never before can we see the global sprawl take rise--in the process creating a global consciousness.  As a people developing each continent and country over vast amounts of time, the internet in the silicon that is tying all the nodes of experience into one single, living entity. In the past, we could talk about valuing individuals from across cultures.  The internet, and the people who are making it what it is becoming--the tech behemoths, i.e., Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook, are the ones who are the designers of our future economy, the developers of a global mind, a shared wiring of all countries. A cartography of the human experience, conditioned by technology to allow us to stare back at ourselves.  If the 19th century led the way to establish the modes of crafting our individuality--the 21 century is responsible for establishing the global mind, securing a transhuman endeavor.  The giants of the tech world are the scaffolding for our next step in the u...

This blog is a blog that tries to capture my thinking about the intersection between existential anxiety and technology, specifically the internet. It is a research, ruminative blog--one in which I detail my own ideas, while also making comments on what I read on a daily basis. If I were close to making a thesis about this subject, I might take a stab at it by stating the obvious: "Technology acts as a bulwark against existential anxiety".  This seems patently obvious though, so it seems that I must dig a little deeper if I want to unearth something worth reading. I have long contemplated this subject, so I think that it is a feeling that I don't think will die away.  I have always been interested in technology.  When I was younger, I wanted to be a computer programmer, even though I hadn't the slightest idea what one actually does.  I knew that I wanted to work with computers--that they were the cutting edge, offering a gateway to a happy life. My existentia...