The Internet Is Now!

 If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. - Morpheus (The Matrix, 1999)

What is the Now?

What is time? What is the present? And does Time apply to the internet? Or are we and the virtual world one and the same? These are philosophical questions, and can be answered through various means. However, as of 2017 the "internet of things" and the real world are becoming ever less transparent. 

More of our time is spent in applications - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - then actual activities in the real world. Human life is becoming 'application-ized', so that our activities are more or less an application, instead of a timed event. When we use Facebook, have we spent any time, as Facebook can be accessed 24 hours-a-day, therefore negating time.

The Internet Empire

We are all now at the mercy of the internet. We use WhatsApp to communicate, Facebook to socialize, YouTube to watch TV, and Google for information. We have been colonized by a system of Wifi signals which is growing stronger by the second.