The homo digitalis, whom the tech prophets want to liberate from his immaturity with their “empowerment” whispers, suffers from strange compulsions: like a driven person, he checks his smartphone to see the lack of events in everyday life in a flood of Whatsapp messages and Instagram messages. Drowning reels and rushing from one “story” to the next. In waiting rooms, trains or parks – everywhere you see people staring at their smartphones and ignoring the world around them, as if they had transported the filter bubble into physical space. FOMO, the fear of missing out, can now be considered pathological.
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