No Phones on the Field
I have been using my iPhone as a stopwatch, and sometimes for background music, during soccer practice for a while now. Not anymore. Last Thursday one of my pla...
Tag: attention deficit economy
Skipping the Skip-nows
My children and I have been indulging in Screen-Free Week. We have read books, played games, and talked together. A week earlier they were binge-watching someth...
Isolation, anxiety, addiction, and escapism. Oh my!
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair (1934) After Alexandria Ocasio-Corte...
Impulses
ACTION REQUIRED, the e-mail demands, NOW. Give money. Sale! One day only! You might like this video. Sign our petition now or terrible things will happen! How w...
AT&T Fell for Media’s Inflated Sense of Self-Importance
AT&T was wrong to acquire DirecTV and TimeWarner. Now what?
Now
The iPhone crouches at the corner of my chair, well within reach. The iMac sits on the altar in the living room, but I can worship from afar by picking up the i...
All These Many Voices
In which I feel relatively free making up statistics because my assertion doesn't care -- and reliable data is hard to find if not nonexistent.
Connectivity
Respect for others’ time is difficult when you cannot see them. The telephone interrupts dinner, church, conversations. The burden of ignoring the interru...
The Browser History Fell Through a Memory Hole in my Pocket
If not careful, the brogrammers responsible for the attention deficit economy and big data collection will find their work has gone the way of interactive telev...
Chaperone on the Field Trip
Without constant external stimulation, we might have to face the anxious terror of consciousness. And so the increasingly urgent demand in a first grader’...