Paul Ferguson wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Ali, Saqib<[email protected]> wrote:
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>> "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
>>
>>
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> Bah.
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> Self-control is obviously not an appreciated trait these days.
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> - - ferg
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Without self-control you are doomed to failure! At least, that is how it
seems according to this 5 minute Ted Talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_marshmallow_yet.html
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