Franklin Foer
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in Washington, D.C., The United States
July 20, 1974
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“Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.”
― How Soccer Explains the World
― How Soccer Explains the World
“Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
― World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
― World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.”
― World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
― World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
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