Sublime

a computer engineer named Ron gives himself a quota of only two websites he’s allowed to regularly check—a big improvement over the forty or more sites he used to cycle through.

It’s easy today to look back at the twentieth-century world of analog media and see an inefficient, fragmented mess—a mess that digitization would clean up—but the inefficiency and fragmentation served important social, intellectual, and artistic purposes.

I was seeing that the means by which we give over our hours and days are the same with which we assault ourselves with information and misinformation, at a frankly inhumane rate.

Second, these sites push you to switch tasks more frequently than you normally would—to

Still, starting from these specialized roots and then moving on to write for more general audiences, I’ve come to believe that these narrow extremes still somehow embody broad truths. Too many of us undervalue concentration, and substitute busyness for real productivity, and are quick to embrace whatever new techno-bauble shines brightest. You don’

When it comes to informational products, however, the internet seemed to herald a new economy of abundance.

et le Printemps silencieux de Rachel Carson.