This blog is a scrapbook of material for a book I’m writing about the ways in which what it means to be human has changed in the digital age.
Importantly: Media are environments. Our media environment has changed radically – and is still changing – due to digital technology.
The name we give to the process of adaptation to a changed environment is ‘evolution’. It’s not about becoming better – but becoming different as a creative response to external stimuli.
Now We Are Different puts forward the provocation that we are engaged in an evolutionary process that we are virtually oblivious to, but which has progressed to the point now that we are – in mind, body and culture – a new category of human being.