COMMENT | Drifting apart in convenience

COMMENT | In just a short span of slightly more than a hundred years, we have progressed from a simple letter taking weeks to travel between Kuantan and Kuala Lumpur, to instant reactions from people across the globe to photos on social media.

We cannot walk five steps without being bombarded by competing stimuli persuading us to consume, buy, follow, pre-save, etc for any number of reasons.

When we try to shut out the external world, we plug into ours to find comfort through content that is served to us like never-ending plates of food on a sushi belt.

Amplified by algorithms that detect and distribute the most engaging and enlightening items that fit the digital self that it has constructed based on your habits of use.

A dopamine hit must come in a few microseconds, it’s a swipe to the next one.

One way or another, we cannot...