At the beginning of his new book “The Social Media Upheaval,” prominent tech and constitutional law Professor Glenn Reynoldslikens the technological advancements underway with other historic ages that have dramatically altered civilization, such as the Agricultural Revolution. That's the scope of the tech revolution — it's a globe changer.
Next he reminds readers of pandemic viruses that wiped out populations in the past and compares that to the tech viruses of today — social media vitriol and rapid-fire internet mobs.
Could America be on the verge of a “civilizational nervous breakdown,” the scholar asks.
“Maybe we don't know the mental disease vectors that we're inadvertently unleashing, just as those early civilizations didn't understand the physical disease vectors they were promoting. Right now, it almost seems as if the social media world was designed to spread viruses of the mind. And that's because it was,” Reynolds writes.
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