Did this change anything?

This is a book about your fascination with the internet

…and what caused it

It’s a book about everyone who’s gone round and round in circles checking their twitter feed, refreshing reddit, logging onto Facebook, and hovering over their inbox.

Why do we do it? How much of our day are we wasting to it? Is it a problem for us? Are there ways we can stop it?

Everything from sex to the news is now available for our brains to consume instantly, but our brains didn’t evolve in a world where this was possible. Has technology shortwired our brains? Are we like helpless moths flying aimlessly towards the light?

This is a book which tries to understand what instant culture means for humanity, and how profoundly it will change our existence in the future.

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The Chapters

The Internet

How did the internet grow into our lives? At what point did we just accept that

Your Brain

How does your hunter gatherer brain shape up in the digital world?

The Industry

There's a global industry dedicated to getting you spending your time looking at their ads.

Pornography

Never before have we had such endless access to this super stimul

Alternative existence

Just how much is your consciousness beginning to 'play out' in virtual worlds?

Forever Alone

What will become of the 'communicate through text' generation?

The Singularity is coming

If you think things are crazy now, the future is going to bring you srprises

Extra chapter - Recognition

Recognising irrational browsing patterns can help you overcome them

About the author

Phil Harper has been an avid redditor for five years. He's as caught in the net as the next person, and its this very dilemma which inspired the book.

More about Phil