I’m a Tech Addict and I’m Not Ashamed

She was talking about the way we have shifted to valuing convenience as the ultimate good over what is actually good for us. Instead, we have to find a way to balance what is good with what is convenient, even as tech companies do as much as possible to hook us. All of this is about the fact that we are now contending with a culture of convenience that does not differentiate very much between getting news in a form that is “snackable” (my least favorite media word ever), having a bottle of ketchup delivered to your door in the middle of the night even if it sucks up too many resources, and getting a car on demand at the lowest price even if it requires paying drivers less and less.

Source: www.nytimes.com