From Reed Jolley:
The irony of information technologies is that the very devices intended to save time actually occupy spaces that were previously open for reflection and leisure. Have you seen the attorney making call-after-call on the chair lift at Mammoth? Have you, personally, missed listening to classical music when you drive because you have to make a few quick calls? How many evenings have you lost answering e-mail or aimlessly surfing the Web? Schultze writes, As we commit more and more time to impersonal, unreflective, rapid-fire messaging, we have less and less time left to commune intimately with neighbor, God, and creation. . . We become machine-like creatures, uploading and downloading messages, organizing them into folders, burning them into new storage media, and printing them off to our heart’s content.
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