We know by now that the internet is a giant playpen, a landscape of toys, distractions and instant gratification, of chirps and squeaks and bright, shiny things plus, to be sure, ugly, horrid beasties lurking in all the softness apparently without horizon. Graphics rounded corners, lower case, Googles primary colours, Twitters birdie, Facebooks shades of blue enhance the innocence and infantilism. It is a world, as Jonathan Franzen once said, so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self. Until we chance on the bars of the playpen and find that there are places we cant go and that it is in the gift of the grown-ups on the other side to set or move the limits to our freedom.
Källa: The billion-dollar palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google | Art and design | The Guardian
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