The Tragedy of the Digital World

Recently a professor shared with me a college student’s reflections in response to my earlier writings on solitude and silence: 

I was not born into a world relatively unaffected by technology like you were. Rather, I was thrust into a world that had already succumbed to its disastrous effects! I have heard it said that the Internet was going to make the world a smaller place, and indeed it has. 

It has reduced the world from seven billion to just one! Just you, hiding…