'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than…

Douglas Rushkoff
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'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel. ✨ In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'. Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.
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