“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. It will sound meaningless, but: One doesn’t see teenagers staring into space anymore. Gone is the… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“We are now becoming, by Blackmore’s estimation, teme machines—servants to the evolution of our own technologies.” — Michael Harris Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
