The medium of television blinds us from the rich and detailed history of the last few thousand years. It focuses our limited attention on those events and ideas which have been captured on the television screen in just the last few decades. What do we know about Reality if our notions of Nature come from [...]
Steve Jobs was bored. That’s why he created the devices that monopolize our attention – he was bored. Thinking back on his long, boring summers as a youth, Jobs said, “I’m a big believer in boredom … out of curiosity comes everything.” Great practical advice for everyday life. But what does this say about the [...]
Thoreau made a poignant and astute statement when he turned inward to soliloquy about the invention of the telegraph and its degrading influence on the typographical American mind: “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Thoreau [...]
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