The Chronicle of Higher Education and I have had a long relationship and it’s thrilling to see more of their stories getting attention on a national level. Ellen Winkler called with an interesting essay about how the internet and human interaction has created a sense of groupthink. Instead of creating unfettered intellectual growth, it has created a strange group dynamic.
It’s always fun to create ideas about the relationship between humans and technology and my approach was a simple one of the crowd rushing headlong together with an altered collective mind. Since I was a science fiction geek, it was easy to find metaphors. Much thanks to Ellen and Chronicle for always providing interesting topics.
