“..There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?” — David Foster Wallace, This is Water.

Sometimes, the most obvious and important realities are the hardest to see and talk about. Digital technology, now ubiquitous in our daily lives, is perhaps one such reality. These technologies have fully reshaped the way we communicate, how we access information, and how we work. Sometimes in ways we envisioned… and sometimes not. The reality of these unexpected consequences bears interrogation.

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