Every morning I wake up to the sound of fuzzy buzzing – it isn’t the supposedly fuzzy feeling we’re told we feel when something good happens. It is the clinical sound of a layer of digital cellophilm radiating through and settling in my skull – I live in a place without wi-fi or a landline phone connection. There’s just enough background wi-fi, mobile-signal, digital-TV, satellite scanning radiation to make it through my thin roof.
You know the sound of the back of the fridge – it’s close to that but more invasive, more cerebral and far less obvious. The closest fridge to where I sleep is 10 metres away.
You wake up to it too, you’re just not aware of it anymore.
That’s not to say that you ever were entirely aware of it but that your mind registered it and switched it off as soon as it realised it would have to deal with it for the rest of time.
Every morning I wake to the digital-cellophilm of the city and I think, ‘What’s this radiation doing to the way my mind works?’
There is some interesting and horrifying research on the effects of EM radiation. Seeker beware.
Indeed.
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