The appearance of contemporary applied sciences has undeniably introduced so much consolation to the lives of people. As human beings, we have now to determine how to pace ourselves and our expectations when there isn’t any temporal backdrop towards which to measure our progress, no narraative by whicch to make sense our actions, no future toward which we might attempt, and seemingly no time to figure any of this out.

“Social and community organizers who noticed in social media a brand new, safe method for individuals to assemble, voice their opinions, and effect backside-up change are sometimes recoiling at the approach networked anonymity breeds mob behavior, merciless assault, and inconsiderate responses.

— In 2004, Geoff Ryman’s Air predicted that by the year 2020, people would have the ability to access the internet from their very own brains — and based on Ray Kurzweil, futurist author and inventor, we will not be too removed from realizing this expertise.

“It tries to search out out what roles media force us to play, how media construction what we are seeing, and why media makes us feel the best way we do. Media Ecology is the research of media as ‘environments.’ It’s finding out …