Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.

Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.