The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 254 of 254
Screens do not make us passive
The route from here to this dystopia seems very unclear. Greenfield bases her worries on the idea that screen culture is essentially ‘sensational’, that it bombards us with discrete experiences which do not forge the kinds of connections that make us into Someones. She seems to think that sitting in front of a computer renders the user passive. But actually it is much more demanding than the television, its predecessor as the destroyer of western civilisation. Even