I’ll go into greater detail about the talk with Douglas Rushkoff later in the day. But in the meantime, one of the things he suggested was that Attention Deficit Disorder was a disease that gained vast prominence in the US as corporations responded to the threat to advertising revenue that the internet, interactive technology and remote controls posed. Interestingly, I stumbled upon an article this morning in Scientific American that goes directly against this assertion – and which goes to show that it is possible still for people to argue effectively and scientifically against the devices which are funded by paid-for meme propogation and cultural programming. That is – it is still possible for people to fight against television.
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