"The sole cause of man's unhappiness is his inability to sit quietly in his own room." - Blaise Pascal When I was an undergraduate, the president of the university -loved- to reference Pascal. This particular one always stuck—and has dogged me most of my life. I have no problem sitting in my room. I have no problem being physically quiet.…
"Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems." - Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology When there's too much information, it becomes meaningless, or worse a complete distraction. Some estimates suggest that the amount…
I know pretty much everyone talks about this these days, but it bears repeating again. Huxley was closer to the mark than Orwell. It’s even more relevant now than when it was written in 1985. It’s not enough to know that this is true—we have to ask ourselves, “What are we going to do about it?” “What Orwell feared were…