sorry, I beg your pardon?
Is it just me or are none of us able to concentrate these days? Is our growing dependence upon the internet and other interruptive media sources such as instant messaging, texting and tweeting altering the way we react and think? How many times do we stop the email we’re writing to flick over to let such and such know that we know they’re now online? Are you really listening to what I’m saying or are you dying to read the text that your vibrating mobile has just notified you has arrived?
When we go online or switch our phones on we undoubtedly enter a world that promotes cursory reading, ‘skimming’, hurried and distracted thinking, superficial learning, short-termism. It’s an environment that ultimately demands an immediate knee-jerk response. The speed of response is of more importance than the quality. The information we are presented with all too often becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of immediate self-justification, rather than a tool of empowerment and knowledge.
Once upon a time we debated, discussed, pondered, digested, ruminated and deliberated. Now we just was a sound bite, a witticism, a laugh and a punch line. So what are you doing reading this…get back to work and do some deep-thinking!
