Elvis Nuno on Nostr: Much like our ever shortening attention span (e.g. the ability to read a novel). As ...

Much like our ever shortening attention span (e.g. the ability to read a novel). As the years progress “small talk” — something that I have always, myself, considered a “simple skill”, and sign of basic social development — appears to be becoming an increasingly “lost art.”
Something that is nothing more than simply the ability to approach a stranger and discuss… Literally anything.
It pains be to blame The Internet, and mass communication in general. Something that is core infrastructure and a technology as a whole that I have dedicated my life to building — something I deeply believe to be one of the most essential technologies humankind has ever developed… and something that *should* improve our social skills and attention, yet has empirically shown to be very much not the case.
One would hope that as new technologies continue to develop human development will reach a certain equilibrium where the negatives can be curtailed as the positive effects permeate the adoption of said technologies… But as for when we reach that point (or if such a point even *can* be reached) remains elusive.