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Traveling Without Moving: How The Internet Creates Perpetual Consumers - Forbes
We’ve all done it. You go online to look at a pattern, a photo, and next thing you know you are buying a half dozen cheese plates even though you aren’t French and you don’t eat cheese. We were told in the 1990s that the internet was the information highway and today we see that it is clearly the service road straight to capitalist heaven. For many of us, myself included, who doesn’t enjoy having object clicked, purchased and shipped to our doors? The internet has allowed us to short-circuit time and distance such that we inevitably get online and presume that we have power over this information network rather than accept that opposite might be true—that it has enormous power over us.
We’ve all done it. You go online to look at a pattern, a photo, and next thing you know you are buying a half dozen cheese plates even though you aren’t French and you don’t eat cheese. We were told in the 1990s that the internet was the information highway and today we see that it is clearly the service road straight to capitalist heaven. For many of us, myself included, who doesn’t enjoy having object clicked, purchased and shipped to our doors? The internet has allowed us to short-circuit time and distance such that we inevitably get online and presume that we have power over this information network rather than accept that opposite might be true—that it has enormous power over us.