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David Byrne: Should We Break up with the Internet?
March 24th, 2014
Creative Time Reports publishes the latest op-ed from internationally renowned musician and frequent Creative Time collaborator David Byrne. He tries to imagine a life without the internet, even if only as an exercise to envision what a more secure online world might look like. “The web has started to act like a bully, a drug dealer,” Byrne writes. “It knows we need it, love it and are addicted to it, so it can take advantage of that need.”