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…just last week, we saw the very first video image of Anne Frank, sitting at a window enjoying a moment to herself. As if her diary were not enough, this split second humanizes her character from the past. There she is, sitting in the sun, just like you.
Derrion Albert died on YouTube a week before the Ann Frank clip surfaced. In recording as many events as possible, the Internet is being used as a tool to measure yourself against time. Social networking reassures that we’re all still here. And it’s a bizarre mistake to believe that the Internet makes us lazy. Instead, it strengthens our neural pathways until, eventually, the mind becomes as built as the Internet.
