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I gave up after the first page. Not because I was doing too many other things but the article just seemed crap with no actual science content. With so many othe
by dejb 19y ago
I gave up after the first page. Not because I was doing too many other things but the article just seemed crap with no actual science content. With so many other options life is too short short to read some no-content, neo-Luddite, arts student rant. Maybe that is why these type of people don't like the options provided by technology - it means that we don't have to read their pretentious fluff.
- gojomo 19y agoThere is science behind this -- and the article mentions it later -- but Walter Kirn is a fiction writer and essayist rather than science/feature reporter. So this is a narrative and meditation on the topic, rather than survey or policy paper. I thought the characterization of extreme multitasking and availability as a sort of 'attention bubble' likely to pop was interesting. Then again, I enjoyed Kirn's novel 'Up in the Air', as well as the movie adaptation of his novel 'Thumbsucker'. And another of his articles at Atlantic, 'Lost in the Meritocracy', is a vivid and cynical look at his Princeton years that could interest News.YCers... if they have the attention span. :)
- dejb 19y agoOK fair enough. Maybe there was reasonable content later in the article. The fact is that a lot of us can't afford to invest the time it takes to get through this guy's life story in the hope of finding it. Ironically the very people that the science content could have been more useful to are the ones who don't have the time to read it.
- eru 19y agoDown with the arts students!