Or from someone like her. In a new Vanity Fair interview, Thompson said of social media, which she likened to root canal surgery:
I’d rather have root canal treatment for the rest of my life than join Twitter…. God knows what it’s all doing to us. I hope that everyone does realize that we are all just one giant human experiment at the moment. We are just a great big bunch of little gerbils on wheels.
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In the interview, she also likened social media users to “lemmings”.
This is refreshing. So I was surprised that some media outlets underscoring the interview seem to regard these and similar remarks she made about social media in the interview seemed to regard Thompson–because she may maintain a website or even use email–as a hypocrite or clueless Luddite. thompsosn msimp We need to hear from Emma Thompson or someone like her on social media about once a week about what “it’s all doing to us”. We need a digital Speakers’ Corner for Luddites, true believers, lemmings and in-betweens of all ages and occupations. For years, this blog has raised questions about our new digital world. Has “tech”, rather than what tech is supposed to help humans do, becoming the main event? Is it making us intellectually lazy or dumbing us down? the work what tech is supposed to helop the than what dumbing us down? for yers the has been a topic of this blog for years. We’d like to hear from pundits, leaders and (I’ll settle for) just about anyone . world’s best actors and most authentic persons