I was watching an interview with David Foster Wallace, author of the famous best-seller Infinite Jest (which, due to its excessively long sentences, perhaps should have been called Infinite Sentence Length). In the interview, Wallace complained about the decline in the national attention span—the diminished willingness to spend time alone in a quiet room reading a book, evaluating a complex piece of art, or abstractly reflecting. He notes that with the dawn of the computer, we've grown accustomed to constant stimulation—to everything being quickly and readily accessible—and have neglected abstract reflection.
He notes that with the dawn of the computer, we've grown accustomed to constant stimulation—to everything being quickly and readily accessible—and have neglected abstract reflection. The interview was from 2003. 2003, incidentally, was the year I was born.
2003, incidentally, was the year I was born.