Some people think that reading is dead. The internet killed it.

Perhaps, they believe, the only way to get people to read at any length is by feeding them their prose like so

“The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation” looks on the bright side of our culture’s ADD.

Back in 1971,…before the founders of Google had even managed to get themselves born, the polymath economist Herbert A. Simon wrote maybe the most concise possible description of our modern struggle: “What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

Back in 1980, I was groovin’ to my dad’s cassette tape.

The Police – Too Much Information demo (rare audio)

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