I’m kinda grateful I got 20 years of pre-Internet life. Hybrid pre-post Internet brain feels like a superpower relative to people who were too old/dead or too young/unborn to develop one. A kind of bicameralism.
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Do you have specific examples of how this manifests itself?
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Things I read before the internet are not all connected up in my head. They’re more like separate disconnected universes. It’s like I have public cloud/private cloud head. Things you read with google at fingertips get compiled to long-term memory with a lot more bundled context.
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Also, being able to work in offices with humans before working remotely myself and building a distributed team.
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I don't like the word "xennial", but I like the idea of having a term for those who had analog childhoods and digital adulthoods.
merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/
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Feels similar to bilingualism or biculturalism I think, except easier to weaponize
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Pre-internet == pre Mosaic? Also, could you elaborate on what you mean by the superpower?
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