We are all connected. In a macro sense the Internet and technology connects us all. But think about all of our individual networks. Our social networks, on and off line, our business networks, our networks as customers, as consumers and as family members. And like a complex venn diagram, these networks get stronger and denser and smarter as they all interconnect with each other.
But is there a point where it’s too much. Where the density or even the brittleness of these networks, affect our thoughts, our emotions and potentially, like an autoimmune disease, collapse in on themselves by reaching a kind of break point?
That's the jumping off point for brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeff Stibel's book Breakpoint: Why the Web will Implode, Search will be Obsolete, and Everything Else you Need to Know about Technology is in Your Brain.
My conversation with Jeff Stibel: