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Digital technology is such an ingrained part of most of our lives these days that I think we forget just how far it has come in our lifetimes.
We were once a very, very analogue people. Hilariously so. And every once in a while, just how analogue we were comes screaming back to me in a way that makes me feel very, very old indeed.
We all know that the web is the greatest discovery engine (so far) ever conceived. And even if many of us experience an occasional overload anxiety, the array of tools to filter and manage all this goodness seem to be getting better and simpler (personally I’ve replaced delicious, StumbleUpon, digg and RSS/feed readers with just one thing; Twitter).
There’s also little doubt that the benefits of having the world and its information at one’s fingertips are immense and mind-blowing (although being able to resolve office/pub/dinner party discussions with the “why don’t we Google it?” seems to be a bit of a fun-killer). And I’m certainly no ‘serendipitard’ who believes that a surplus of information and algorithms are killing serendipity (as this recent debate so entertainingly raged).
