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Distracted:
In a distracted time, our virtual, split-screen, and nomadic lives nurture diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment.
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Distracted:
We begin to forget how to pay attention to one another deeply and begin to attend more to fallacy and artifice. Trust, depth of thought, and finally a spirit of humanity begin to be lost.
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Distracted:
Today… we have lost the necessary understanding that an inner resourcefulness must always go hand in hand with using our devices, or else we risk ceding control of our lives to our tools.
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Distracted:
It is thinking… that offers a quiet eye in the storm of time… – Hannah Arendt
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Distracted:
…forecasting the future is really just the delicate delineation of life’s uncertainties, helped by consistently glancing backward twice as far as you look ahead.
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Distracted:
If we want to shape our own future, we must consider how we want to live and how we want to define progress, and as we do so, prepare to welcome to our ranks the thinking person’s most prickly yet necessary companion – doubt.
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Distracted:
Ghostly, mysterious, and inextricably linked to attention, memory is a key player in the eternal background between past and future.
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Distracted:
Amid vast, swelling reservoirs of information, our memory keepers are tormented by visions of data droughts.
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Distracted:
To survive, digital media need vigilant tending. Benign neglect will not do.
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Distracted:
Keeping stores of information may be the least of our challenges. Understanding what we’ve saved will be a far trickier task.
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