Rushkoff puts forward that technology is some how losing the complexity of life. That somehow we as human-beens lose the idea that not everything is black and white. What Rushkoff is lacking is basic knowledge of the way things work and the interactions that can take place on the internet.
The internet is a monstrously complex engine where millions of people go to absorb, share, and distribute information. Even on a metaphorical level where we view the internet only as a entity relationship mapping. We notice a large complex three dimensional web were connections exist all over the web some brighter than others leading to larger sections where majorities and even minorities of people surf. With this we be can see common ideas and options we can see how people are connected ... a similar phenomenon can be seen on Wikipedia where you can try and click links to see how long it take you to find another subject. The links are very similar to the thoughts of other individuals and could be taken as a hard representation of how people connect seeing as people were the ones who authored the articles instead of one man. It can be taken further in that the advent of the internet has made the world immensely more complex and thus life more complex.
Thats the end of this rant and it has been shown that the internet encourages a more complex life. Even with all the ease and speed of the internet things have become more complex or at least as complex as life before the internet.
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