Re: Speed used to convey urgency; now we somehow think it means efficiency

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Ali, Saqib<docbook.xml () gmail com> 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

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