Get your pitchforks, everybody! He criticized the internet! (For the record: at the time of writing, this comment is -1 or -2, judging by the color.) I've beco

Get your pitchforks, everybody! He criticized the internet! (For the record: at the time of writing, this comment is -1 or -2, judging by the color.) I've become genuinely disturbed recently by how many people simply cannot stop using their cellphones. You'll be talking to someone, and every 45 damn seconds the thing is out to reply to someone else. This isn't one or two people - this is maybe a third of all people I know. "Bollocks" this article is, but there's no doubt in my mind that the generations growing into universal electronics are developing different (probably in a bad way) cognitive processes. I've solved the problem for me by cutting myself off, as much as possible, from the world of electronic communication. I avoid my cellphone (which is a dumbphone, and will so remain), I don't use IM or IRC, and so on. (I can't believe I'm writing this paragraph on HN, of all places. The shame! The hypocrisy!) I now have the self-control to go without constant stimulation, and to relax and let my mind wander. Most people I know, sad to say, do not. I don't think it will turn out to be a good thing, and I think it's something we should, in fact, be worried about.