The Internet is Empty Calories

But sometimes I think much of what we get on the Internet is empty calories. It’s sugar — short videos, pokes from friends, blog posts, Twitter posts (even blogs seem longwinded now), pop-ups and visualizations…Sugar is so much easier to digest, so enticing…and ultimately, it leaves us hungrier than before.

Worse than that, over a long period, many of us are genetically disposed to lose our capability to digest sugar if we consume too much of it. It makes us sick long-term, as well as giving us indigestion and hypoglycemic fits. Could that be true of information sugar as well? Will we become allergic to it even as we crave it? And what will serve as information insulin?

Notes:

Is the information we consume on the Internet like refined sugar, leaving us hungrier than before?

Folksonomies: internet society information

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 Information Metabolism
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Dyson, Esther (January, 2010), Information Metabolism, Edge Foundation, Inc., Retrieved on 2010-10-01
  • Source Material [edge.org]
  • Folksonomies: culture internet information entropy society information