When Our Asynchronous Society Starts To Fray

In the first decade or two of the web and the smartphone, everything was really focused on efficiencies achieved from going asynchronous.

In every field, you can see there are huge gains to going asynchronous.

But we’ve lost that social feeling of community that comes from synchronicity.

Over time we will once again say: “It actually does matter occasionally that a society is all watching something at the same time, or that you and a group of people benefit by doing something together.”

You start to feel like societies start to fracture when you don’t have that feeling of communal harmony.