INSIGHT ISSUE 02 | 2020

12 Enabling the Digital and Energy transition And the impacts on our surroundings? Everyone is an ecologist, only to forget all about it as soon as we need face masks —we will save the world later, there is still time. The digital revolt has standardized what we might term “blink culture”. Everything must be consumed quickly. There are countless sites where speeches are limited to 20 minutes, others that offer summaries of books that condense 200-page tomes into a few lines (truth be told, they guarantee a maximum of ten pages). Essentially, blink culture has to do with bullet point culture. Just titles. We rack up bullet points and likes, pretending they are knowledge, culture and success: blinks. The consequence: fast food, blitz meetings, short naps and therapy sessions, speed reading, making money before age 20, etc. “Short, new and exciting have replaced lengthy, repeated and reflective” says Eugenio Borgna. TERMINOLOGY Blink culture A standardized culture, born as a consequence to the digital revolt. Everything must be consumed quickly.