How will universal authorship shape future society? Seed Magazine has published an article that poses just that question, examining the growing numbers of “publishers” across all medium.
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May 19, 2009
The Cookie is the Hyperlink:
Why Distraction is OK
Sam Anderson has a wonderful article in New York Magazine that examines our modern culture of multi-tasking. He explores both sides of the attention spectrum from continuous partial attention to executive focus, and concludes that maybe all this distraction we’re experiencing is not all that bad. It’s a long (by internet standards) but worthwhile read.
Anderson on the benefits of distraction:
The prophets of total attentional meltdown sometimes invoke, as an example of the great culture we’re going to lose as we succumb to e-thinking, the canonical French juggernaut Marcel Proust. And indeed, at seven volumes, several thousand pages, and 1.5 million [...]




