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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/despite-the-universality-of-this-change-which-we-re-all-buffeted-by/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

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## More by Michael Harris

> [“Valuable memories, like great music, are as much about the things that drop away—the rests—as they are about what stays and sounds. •”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/valuable-memories-like-great-music-are-as-much-about-the-things-that/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“What really scares me is that the accelerating evolution of temes and their machinery requires vast amounts of energy and material resources. We will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/what-really-scares-me-is-that-the-accelerating-evolution-of-temes-and/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/as-we-embrace-a-technology-s-gifts-we-usually-fail-to-consider-what/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/when-we-think-we-re-multitasking-we-re-actually-multiswitching-that/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/we-push-the-technology-down-an-evolutionary-path-that-results-in-the/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“We are now becoming, by Blackmore’s estimation, teme machines—servants to the evolution of our own technologies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/we-are-now-becoming-by-blackmore-s-estimation-teme-machines-servants/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/the-origin-of-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-is-a-creative-mindset/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/to-be-truly-stylish-as-opposed-to-merely-in-style-which-is-the/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“No two generations in history have experienced such a highlighted cognitive dissonance, because never has change occurred at so rapid a pace. Look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/no-two-generations-in-history-have-experienced-such-a-highlighted/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“Dr. Small points out that this atmosphere of manic disruption makes my adrenal gland pump up production of cortisol and adrenaline. In the short…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/dr-small-points-out-that-this-atmosphere-of-manic-disruption-makes-my/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/despite-the-universality-of-this-change-which-we-re-all-buffeted-by/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

> [“The difference between Before and After is that today we need to safeguard our inner weirdo, seal it off and protect it from being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harris/the-difference-between-before-and-after-is-that-today-we-need-to/)

[Michael Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harris/)

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