-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Ali, Saqib<[email protected]> wrote:
> "My friend has just had his PC wired for broadband," writes the poet > Don Paterson. "I meet him in the café; he looks terrible—his face > puffy and pale, his eyes bloodshot. . . . He tells me he is now > detained, night and day, in downloading every album he ever owned, > lost, desired, or was casually intrigued by; he has now stopped even > listening to them, and spends his time sleeplessly monitoring a > progress bar. . . . He says it's like all my birthdays have come at > once, by which I can see he means, precisely, that he feels he is > going to die." > > The Internet has provided us with an almost unlimited amount of > information, but the speed at which it works—and we work through > it—has deprived us of its benefits. We might work at a higher rate, > but this is not working. We can store a limited amount of information > in our brains and have it at our disposal at any one time. Making > decisions in this communication brownout, though without complete > information, we go to war hastily, go to meetings unprepared, and > build relationships on the slippery gravel of false impressions. > Attention is one of the most valuable modern resources. If we waste it > on frivolous communication, we will have nothing left when we really > need it. > > Read more: > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574358643117407778 > .html > Bah. Self-control is obviously not an appreciated trait these days. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFKk3jXq1pz9mNUZTMRAjwdAJ9I7vtlnU3LWAKD4UkDPUWizTLG7ACeNeGz HBLjZz9saogl1HbZVgiJs7Y= =rN31 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
