Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution - 10 (New edition 1)

Are people with autism giving us a glimpse into our future human condition?

Could we be driving our own evolution with our technology and, in fact, be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution?

The thesis at the center of this book is that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies such as social media, location and sensors, we have become context blind.

Since context blindness - or caetextia in Latin - is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior at the highest levels of the spectrum, people with autism may indeed be giving us a peek into our human condition soon.