“When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“Dr. Small points out that this atmosphere of manic disruption makes my adrenal gland pump up production of cortisol and adrenaline. In the short run, these stress hormones boost energy levels and augment memory, but over time they actually impair… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“Valuable memories, like great music, are as much about the things that drop away—the rests—as they are about what stays and sounds. •” — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“What really scares me is that the accelerating evolution of temes and their machinery requires vast amounts of energy and material resources. We will… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“As we embrace a technology’s gifts, we usually fail to consider what they ask from us in return—the subtle, hardly noticeable payments we make… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“We push the technology down an evolutionary path that results in the most addictive possible outcome. Yet even as we do this, it doesn’t… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“We are now becoming, by Blackmore’s estimation, teme machines—servants to the evolution of our own technologies.” — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset” — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“To be truly stylish (as opposed to merely "in style", which is the opposite) is to be unabashedly one's self, without reference to the… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“No two generations in history have experienced such a highlighted cognitive dissonance, because never has change occurred at so rapid a pace. Look at… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“Dr. Small points out that this atmosphere of manic disruption makes my adrenal gland pump up production of cortisol and adrenaline. In the short… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“Despite the universality of this change, which we’re all buffeted by, there is a single, seemingly small change that I’ll be most sorry about.… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“The difference between Before and After is that today we need to safeguard our inner weirdo, seal it off and protect it from being… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
