"We don't live in the information age. That would be an insult to information,which,0n some level,is supposed to inform. We live in the communication age. Ten billion fingers fumbling away.
Unautocorrecting e-mails, texts, and tweets-each one an opportunity to offend, alienate, aggrieve,
all in public, and at light speed.
The misinterpretation age.
Take the language itself. Texting in English is like propelling a gilded horse -drawn carriage onto
the inter-state.
subtlety, nuance, and ambiguity were luxuries of a less frantic era.
And irony, a supposed hallmark feature, has become an invisible, odorless menace.
Irony now condemns us all to imagine that every e-mail or text might actually, secretly,
be poking fun at us.
(jonathan nolan)
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