Meanings
- uncountableThe quality or condition of being overconnected.
The novels are set in the 1960s, partly, Smiley says, because she didn't want the overconnectedness of today's mobile phone and Facebook generation […]
2011 September 10, Fiona Gruber, “Writing a horse”, in Sydney Morning Herald2 more examples
This Israeli motorist with a cell phone in each ear, driving with his elbows, gets my vote as the poster boy for the social disease of the next millennium -- overconnectedness.
1999 August 10, Thomas L. Friedman, “The Y2K Social Disease”, in The New York TimesThe pundits who opined about the negative effects of information overload, of overconnectedness and too much choice, of a society being entertained and digitized to death, did not have it quite right.
2014, Kevin Morris, White Man's Problems, Sweet Devil Press, →ISBN
Origin
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