On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, harley wrote: > Paul Ferguson wrote: > > -----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 terriblehis 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 worksand we work through > >> ithas 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----- > > > > > > > > > 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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