WSJ’s John Freeman quite explicitly expressed his panic wrapped in the form of an awakening article on the need to slow down our communication pace.
Southwest Airlines announced today about their plans of enabling free Wi-Fi on all their flights, at all times, starting next year. Southwest will not be the only one enabling you to tweet while you gaze down at the sundry lands. Soon, going offline will be a luxury.
Freeman also elucidates that our generation needs a radical movement towards slowing down our communication, that we need to concentrate on quality over quantity. I don’t agree with everything being stated in the article but this is a provocative read, nonetheless.
Read the article here.
The author rightly says on access to high-speed Internet: “It has made it more difficult to read slowly and enjoy it, hastening the already declining rates of literacy. It has made it harder to listen and mean it, to be idle and not fidget.”
“A large part of electronic communication leads us away from the physical world. Our cafes, post offices, parks, cinemas, town centers, main streets and community meeting halls have suffered as a result of this development.”
I think that the answer is not slow communication but it is about having access to faster communication but knowing where to stop and integrating order into the everyday.
With the overabundance of information, when do we say enough?
How can you not salivate to more knowledge? And more narcissism? And higher connectivity?
