the marketization, productization, and commodification of the Internet of Things is good, actually, because it might work as a sort of natural, organic propaganda that pushes people offline for a bit, and reconnects everyone with the real world.

not everything needs to be hooked up to Wi-Fi. I don’t need my fridge to tell me what the weather is going to be like. I have my phone for that, and I’m currently clocking about 7 hours of screen time a day. I’ll see the weather. Trust me.

the only thing I really need the internet for is information. so, everything, really. perhaps it’s not the internet that’s the issue, but the incentives. there’s nothing wrong with collecting information from the internet if that information is used to Go Do Things in the real world.

the internet is kind of like a weird digital worm hole, where you fall into it and sometimes you end up somewhere else in the world, and sometimes you end up stuck in an infinite loop of screen time. hellish, to say the least.

so, yeah, hopefully all the brainrot forces us to reexamine the nature of our digital consumption, and the subsequent behaviors fueled by being terminally online.