What the Heck is Digital Deliria?

With so much content online, to consume our time day-in-and-day-out, why in the world do we need this website?

Well, it dawns on me no one is really talking about our shared experience of growing up in an increasingly digital world.  I mean, I looked!  I sought out this information and found nothing of real note. (If I missed something interesting, please comment!) 

But from what I can tell, people are just not talking about how digital – something once new and undiscovered – is now transforming into a digital history.  A nostalgic pixel quilt of the careers, people and technology that comprises our digital existence.

A Digital History

So I decided to venture back.  Reveling in the nostalgia of our first technology experiences.  Revisiting the wild and often hysterical days of working at a hot digital ad agency.  Building the first websites. Remembering the pitfalls and successes of young entrepreneurs like me, with a wide open and fresh playing field of the internet, just out there “figuring it out”. I’m thinking back to rainbow bars and beveled button days here!  And, across nearly 25 years of experience in this business.

So, I’m starting this site.  The Tales From Digital Deliria are ready… no, itching!.. to be told.  It’s time to let them out of their cage! 🙂

So What is Digital Deliria?

It is:

1. Stories from the heady days of the dawn of the internet (and its builders, like me).  They’re challenging, sometimes bittersweet, and often hilarious!  (Office zen gardens, ping pong tables, and crazy clients, anyone?)
2. Facing the reality that the internet never became the enlightening utopia we thought we were building.  (So let’s indulge in a little nostalgic reminiscing about the time before this dawned on us, OK?  Yeah, we did have youthful dreams about changing the world for the better back then.  And just maybe, the dreams are still within our reach?…)
3. Trying to figure out how all this digital is affecting our brains… our existence!  (In other words: the “deliria”, that I hasten to guess, digital literally causes.) Let’s explore how our collective technology experience shapes the mind, the brain, and thought processes in ways we don’t yet understand but are likely significant.  e.g. Think about this the next time you see a kid in a stroller with head buried in their iPad.

Please stay tuned here for more.  And “like” if you did, share, post your comments, or give me your feedback.  Would like to hear your stories of living in the Digital Deliria too!

As always, I hope you enjoyed this and it brightened your day.

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