In the future, a famous person will die every fifteen minutes. Already it’s happening. The ascent of the microcelebrities, the 24 hour news cycle, citizen journalism, and our darkest fantasies all collide on Twitter now. The website’s rhetorical question “What are you doing?” sometimes feels more like “Who died today?
Tomorrow Museum » Archive » The Daily Death: When A Celebrity Dies Every 15 Minutes
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Kind of a depressing thought for the morning but it made me stop to think and reflect about the value & inevitable end to all the new types of relationships the internet has helped us build.
Source: tomorrowmuseum.com
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