veronika’s Reviews > The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World > Status Update

To let our feelings be so transparently interpreted by technology is terrifying, so black mirror. To have an app decide to delete a friends number bc of my heart rate, or to have my partner question if I love them bc their phone sensed a shake in my voice…. That’s literally insane, I don’t want to get to that point

Boredom is so damn important, to think patience is connected to a more productive and humanist society. I’m blessed to have already started learning how to be more patient. I hope for a more altruistic society

The fact there’s a huge decline in handwriting, in drawing, and playing. It’s so insane to think at some point these things could be forgotten. I love all of these things, I hope as a generation we can keep it alive. In praying I’m hoping

Face to face interactions are so important. This reminds me of the popularity of botox especially on young ppl and how the stiffness and lack of expressions can and will affect our children in the future. Preferring online interactions is starving of us learning to read micro expressions, this shit sucks oml

Technology has slowly, or I guess now—quickly, replaced experiences and the anxiety that we feel realizing that something isn’t exactly right but we’re comfortable enough to not address/change the situation….
Am I losing my humanity?