The Filter Bubble of Technology

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The filter bubble phenomenon is just getting its seeping out through technolaty. It's that increasingly iam only, i'm able to only spend time with the people that i would already,. without any kind of noise thrown into my social millieu. A woman came to see him called lisa cunningham who had been shut away in her home in crippling depression and anxiety for seven years. The first time the group met, lisa actually literally started vomiting with anxiety. But they start talking, andthey like, shall we build a garden? There was an area behind the doctor's offices, they decided to build a garden. Besides o meat around this collective project, they started to

What causes addiction? Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, travelled some 30,000 miles in search of an answer. He met with researchers and lawmakers, drug dealers and drug makers, those who were struggling with substance abuse and those who had recovered from it, and he came to the conclusion that our whole narrative about addiction is broken. "The opposite of addiction is not sobriety," he argues. "The opposite of addiction is connection." But first, we have to figure out what it really means to connect.