The Evolution of Social Media

Then of course there are the physical evolutionary ramifications of this ongoing transformation in human behaviour. Close your eyes and picture what a human might look like in the future after innumerable generations of ever increasing social media usage.
Sitting at a futuristic desk in front of a holographic screen is a sedentary creature with an enormous skull; evolved for the purpose of assimilating an endless stream of information. Beneath the desk the creature’s legs are visible, shrivelled from inactivity. An elongated thumb extends outwards, effortlessly rearranging the information on the screen in front of it. An alarm beep signifies that it is dinner time. Barely a moment later a vacuum sealed bag is deposited on the futuristic human’s lap. With several unseemly slurps that would have horrified many previous generations of humans, it deposits the processed mushy contents into its mouth and swallows them instantaneously. It is only now that I notice the receded chin; no doubt a result of humans no longer needing to chew.
Not once during this whole episode does the futuristic human’s attention shift from the screen in front of it.
Perhaps my imagination is getting the better of me and at any rate it is about time I was getting back to Twitter.
probably true
A prophetic vision. I wonder how other organs will evolve in relation to a certain category of website.
A very interesting point bonobolover, but not one I have given much thought to.
I was most interested to see, to the right of this blog post, that Sidney Sheldon was born on this day in 1917. Jeeze, is that dude OLD. Now, back to Twitter.