Do you usually catch yourself reading the e-mail, reading a text message and instant messaging someone else all the same time? Worse, you could be talking to the colleague beside you as well. I'm guilty. I've caught myself doing that and sometimes I wonder if we're getting anything accomplished at all (as our attention is spanned over different mediums of communication all at once). We've multiple tabs open in our web browsers. Different applications open on the taskbar. We go over the next bits of news from cnn to businessweek to yahoo (which in some way or another say the same thing). All in the span of a few minutes.
Info overload? Communication overload? Digest everything and tune in / tune out to what's important or not. Easier said than done. This is the age of digital reverie. We all immerse ourselves in spontaneous distractions. Gone are the days when you used to go to the library just to read up on a certain material. When you had to go through indexing systems just to find a particular book and you always had to have your library card with you. Afterwards, you had to return the book before its' due date or else you'd have to pay the fine instead of using the money to buy fishball/quekquek. All that hassle is gone. And all of life's conveniences is (almost) at your fingertips.
All kinds of information are spread over the net. I call it the information explosion. Right up there with the big bang theory. We have everything at our disposal viewed at the click of a whim. The redundancy of information is all around. You look at your watch, it tells you the time. Your cellphone and the date and time on the taskbar glares at you as well, telling you the time. Everything that's staring at you is all saying the same thing.
The virtuality of the net consume some of the time that we live in reality. And the challenge is to stay focused and not be drowned by all the information around us.
So get up and live the reality that is your life. Turn off that cellphone. And shutdown your pc. I did. That's why i'm ending this piece.
Info overload? Communication overload? Digest everything and tune in / tune out to what's important or not. Easier said than done. This is the age of digital reverie. We all immerse ourselves in spontaneous distractions. Gone are the days when you used to go to the library just to read up on a certain material. When you had to go through indexing systems just to find a particular book and you always had to have your library card with you. Afterwards, you had to return the book before its' due date or else you'd have to pay the fine instead of using the money to buy fishball/quekquek. All that hassle is gone. And all of life's conveniences is (almost) at your fingertips.
All kinds of information are spread over the net. I call it the information explosion. Right up there with the big bang theory. We have everything at our disposal viewed at the click of a whim. The redundancy of information is all around. You look at your watch, it tells you the time. Your cellphone and the date and time on the taskbar glares at you as well, telling you the time. Everything that's staring at you is all saying the same thing.
The virtuality of the net consume some of the time that we live in reality. And the challenge is to stay focused and not be drowned by all the information around us.
So get up and live the reality that is your life. Turn off that cellphone. And shutdown your pc. I did. That's why i'm ending this piece.
