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Huffington: Disconnect Now, Connection Makes You Stupid

Huffington: I think we will become more obsessed with being disconnected || Absolutely wrong. #disrupt

In a world with increasing opportunities to connect, the most connected connect even more (see It’s Not About Making Things Easier, It’s About Connection), and those at the bottom of the economic heap are being connected for the first time on web-connected phones.

Huffington is going down a strange path, on one hand managing an online media empire but at the same time promoting a ‘disconnect now’ view, based on ‘connection is making us stupid’ mumbo jumbo. She’s channeling Bill Keller, and why? It’s schizophrenic.

Posted by Stowe Boyd
May 23, 2011
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    Funny that I feel kind of similar to Huffington sometimes.
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