Introducing ‘Internet Rage,’ The Road Rage Of Our Time (But Worse)
You may already be familiar with “sidewalk rage.”
This amplified feeling of impatience is most universally understood as road rage, but most of the time, you aren’t in a car when you feel it
Think, for example, of the blood-boiling sensation you feel when your Web browser freezes and you stare into the unfeeling eye of the rainbow pinwheel of death
As technology continues to make our lives more efficient, like filing our taxes with magical easeprospective date within seconds
“We now practically insist that Web pages load in a quarter of a second, when we had no problem with two seconds in 2009 and four seconds in 2006. As of 2012, videos that didn’t load in two seconds had little hope of going viral,” Chelsea Ward wrote in an exploration of the condition in Nautilusthe average person’s attention span was 12 secondsaverage attention span of a goldfish
It’s a cultural problemwrote in The New York Timesshouldviral hamster videoeverybody
This urge to know bits of everything is altering the way we digest information; the lust for it all means we only have time to skim the surface. And when we do that, we don’t have many minutes to get to know anything else on a deeper level. Did you see that headline? How about that gif? That really funny tweet?a webpage within 15 seconds
The origins of ‘slowness rage’Shirley S. Wang writes in The Wall Street Journal.according to NPR
We can apply pedestrian rage to really anything we spend time waiting for: A scheduled doctor’s appointment that’s running late, a cashier taking his time to ring up your items. These days, thought, it’s often something on the internet or on our phones that summons the enraged vibes.
Even our walking speed has increased. Psychologist Richard Wiseman found that, on a global scale, we walk 10 percent faster than we did a decade ago
What happens when we value efficiency above all else
Except someone is2009 Stanford report Alex Soojung-Kim PangThe Distraction Addiction,said in a previous interview.
This new age of efficiency has actually warped our sense of time. “The accelerating pace of society resets our internal timers, which then go off more often in response to slow things, putting us in a constant state of rage and impulsiveness,” Wald writes
The fixenjoy the process of standing in lineworld can be exciting without a filter
A photo posted by E. Smith (@esmith_images) on Feb 2, 2015 at 11:03pm PST
Guy looking at his phoneThe National Day Of UnpluggingStudies show that temporarily going tech-freemiss an adorable photo of a squirrel making a snowball
For starters, you can close this window (and if you’ve made it this far, please reward yourself with a treat), stand up and look out a window. There’s got to be something out there that holds your interest for more than a few seconds. Good luck