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Distracted:
Reading… transforms mere marks on a page into meaning through a powerful blending of sight and sound.
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Distracted:
…emotion is becoming increasingly recognized by researchers as a crucial component of intelligence.
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Distracted:
We no longer have a choice of whether we want a relationship with our machines.
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Distracted:
Just as we expose ourselves to each other behind the veil of the virtual, so we leap toward intimacy at the thinnest signs of life…
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Distracted:
We present to the world a tapestry of externalities that may or may not match our inner emotions, and we bumble through misreading and misunderstandings with even those we know best.
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Distracted:
This physical fusion with the machine empowers us and yet risks narrowing us in ways that may be hard to imagine.
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Distracted:
For if any two cognitive capabilities lie at the core of our identities, they are attention and memory, whose mysteries have only recently begun to be unlocked.
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Distracted:
…who we are and who we want to be matters more than what our ever-improving machinery can or cannot do.
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Distracted:
Having a prodigious memory cannot help us separate trivia from wisdom.
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Distracted:
The body isn’t meat, it’s the reservoir of our humanity. And there will never be a prosthesis for the human spirit.
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