Psychology Today | 24.04.2026 00:04
Every transformative technology arrives with a promise. The internet promised newly found connectivity and a democratization of knowledge. And yes, it delivered those things, and then it delivered something else entirely. Attention became fractured, and identity became performative. The internet didn't just change what we could do. It changed the social conditions in which we lived. And perhaps most notably, many of these changes came in the form of unintended consequences.
