It's not that we're all addicted to the internet, it's that nearly everything else in life has been abstracted away to the point where the only thing the do is use the internet.
It's not a matter of you choosing to use the internet for hours a day, it's a matter of society's efficiencies removing any need to do things such as:
- Build a house
- Grow crops
- Talk to your neighbors
- Etc.
and therefore your are forced to use the internet.
Can you still do the things listed? Sure. Is society set up in such a way that those things are easy and done by the vast majority of people? No.
It's like online dating. A modern person is, in a way, forced to using online dating because the alternatives are out of fashion.
Software is eating the world, which means it's eating your life.
It's not a matter of you choosing to use the internet for hours a day, it's a matter of society's efficiencies removing any need to do things such as:
- Build a house
- Grow crops
- Talk to your neighbors
- Etc.
and therefore your are forced to use the internet.
Can you still do the things listed? Sure. Is society set up in such a way that those things are easy and done by the vast majority of people? No.
It's like online dating. A modern person is, in a way, forced to using online dating because the alternatives are out of fashion.
Software is eating the world, which means it's eating your life.