Ajay Nagre

“we aren’t lonely because we are alone; we are lonely because we have failed in our solitude.”
― Michael Harris, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection

“Anyone who has ever dealt with the tax authorities, the educational system or any other complex bureaucracy knows that the truth hardly matters. What’s written on your form is far more important.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“Despite the universality of this change, which we’re all buffeted by, there is a single, seemingly small change that I’ll be most sorry about. It will sound meaningless, but: One doesn’t see teenagers staring into space anymore. Gone is the idle mind of the adolescent.”
― Michael Harris, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection

“As we embrace a technology’s gifts, we usually fail to consider what they ask from us in return—the subtle, hardly noticeable payments we make in exchange for their marvelous service. We don’t notice, for example, that the gaps in our schedules have disappeared because we’re too busy delighting in the amusements that fill them. We forget the games that childhood boredom forged because boredom itself has been outlawed. Why would we bother to register the end of solitude, of ignorance, of lack? Why would we care that an absence has disappeared?”
― Michael Harris, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection