Quotes About Distraction

Bruce Friedman,

Mothers, wrote Bellamy, would no longer have "to make themselves hoarse telling the children stories on rainy days to keep them out of mischief." The kids would all have their own indispensables.

Distraction is the permanent end state of the perfected consumer, not least because distraction is a state that is eminently programmable. To buy a guitar is to open possibilities. To buy Guitar Hero is to close them.

Intensive multitaskers are "suckers for irrelevancy," commented Clifford Nass, the Stanford professor who led the research.

we are "training our brains to pay attention to the crap.

The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem.

The mounting evidence of an erosion of skills, a dulling of perceptions, and a slowing of reactions should give us all pause. As we begin to live our lives inside glass cockpits, we seem fated to discover what pilots already know: a glass cockpit can also be a glass cage.

those with the helpful software were found "to aimlessly click around" as they tried to crack the puzzle.27

la Red atrae nuestra atención sólo para dispersarla.

A 1989 study showed that readers of hypertext often ended up clicking distractedly "through pages instead of reading them carefully.

hypertext readers often "could not remember what they had and had not read.

What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I'm online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

Many of us like to use runs as a time to escape daily life, to think through problems, to get away from it all. In other words, when we run, we use our mental energy to deal with issues other than running. While this may be somewhat therapeutic, it won't make you a better runner.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream.

material for years. It seems that the aliens go to a lot of trouble to acquire material that could be obtained far more easily elsewhere. Unless the genetic theory is wrong. It might be that we are misinterpreting the data, or it might be that we are taking the bait and falling for a neat but incorrect solution designed to distract us from the real answer to the mystery.

If she kept moving, she didn't have to think. She didn't have to see into herself. If she kept moving, no else could see into her, either.

Guns can be a distraction, a dangerous focus of one's authority, a crutch. Many come to depend on them: take away the gun and you take away their identity.

Perception of reality, today, dies crushed between modern work and modern entertainment.

Modern man deafens himself with music in order not to hear himself.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

Porn and gaming have become the bread and circuses of the internet.

My dick didn't seem to be aware that she was there. She kept asking me what was wrong, and I was so out of it that I thought she meant what was wrong with the world, so I started talking about global poverty and shit. I'm not surprised she left. I suspect she won't be coming back.

One cannot expect men not to get drunk when there is nothing to do!