Are We Getting Less Patient?
December 29th, 2009 | Published in Culture, Technology | 2 Comments
With the help of technology, we are honing our ability to do many more things at once and do them faster. We access and absorb information more quickly than before, and, as a result, we often seem more impatient.
If you use Google to look something up in 10 seconds rather than spend five minutes searching through an encyclopedia, that doesn’t mean you are less patient. It means you are creating more time to focus on other matters. In fact, we’re devoting more effort than ever before to big-picture questions, from the nature of God to the best age for marrying and the future of the U.S. economy.
—Tyler Cowen, “Three Tweets for the Web“
December 29th, 2009 at 9:13 am (#)
Nah!… We’re just getting more impatient.
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:07 am (#)
Instead of spending the five minutes with the encyclopedia and then getting back to our work, we surf the web for thirty more minutes.