From Thinkers to Clickers: The World Wide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Being Human
Essay about all things clicking and how it has become into a human need like breathing, eating, and looking for shelter.
As they click on one hyperlink after another, they often forget the initial question to which they were trying to find an answer. This is because the Web offers many distractions to its users in the form of ever changing content, links that are either obsolete or lead to completely new and different Web sites, and pop-ups and banners that advertise goods and services. Often times, as people aimlessly click their way through cyberspace, hyperclick hysteria sets in, and people lose their bearings in cyberspace and have to click their way back to more familiar cyber territories.
Bolded to highlight that while I don’t think the above link is obsolete, the essay was written in 2003. So there you go.
