A wired world can be alienating, but its great virtue has always been democratization. When we bathe in the blue light of our gadgets, we’re doing many things: surfing, working, gaming and, yes, tuning out the world. But we’re also hearing ideas from people whose voices might not have carried in the pre-wired era, who might not have broken through the chatter. One of the most unremarked advances of the online revolution is that we now hear loudly from the quieter half of the population.
The author of the post has written a book that’s on my reading list: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.
You can also listen to an interview she did for the Little Atoms Podcast.