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In ‘How the Internet Gets Inside Us’, New Yorker critic Adam Gopnik explored the tensions between the technophobes and technophiles, as both groups have something to say about the ‘cognitive entanglement’ of humans and technology. He commented that if television produced the global village, the Internet produces the global psyche, with ‘everyone keyed in like a neuron, so that to the eyes of a watching Martian we are really part of a single planetary brain. Contraptions don’t change consciousness; contraptions are part of consciousness’ (Gopnik 2011, 2).
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Garde-Hansen, J., Gorton, K. (2013). Global Emotion. In: Emotion Online. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312877_4
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