January42012
"The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. Since luxury, as any economist will tell you, is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow, I heard myself tell the marketers in Singapore, will crave nothing more than freedom, if only for a short while, from all the blinking machines, streaming videos and scrolling headlines that leave them feeling empty and too full all at once."
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From “The Joy of Quiet”- Very well worth the read
I’m fascinated by this concept and trend of the end of boredom and stillness because we’re perpetually in contact with our phones or computers. At my old house I used to love the power outages because the house became so still- it was always such a welcome change of pace.
