Brian Mackey’s Reviews > Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now > Status Update
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'[O]ur efforts to keep up with the latest Tweet or update do not connect us to the present moment but ensure that we are remaining focused on what just happened somewhere else. We guide ourselves and our businesses as if steering a car by watching a slide show in the rearview mirror.'
— Apr 12, 2013 09:54PM
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Brian Mackey
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On "the CNN effect": "[Former Secretary of State James] Baker isn't simply talking about needing to work and think faster; he's expressing the need to behave in real time, without reflection. Policy, as such, is no longer measured against a larger plan or narrative; it is simply a response to changing circumstances on the ground, or on the tube."
— Apr 02, 2013 05:17PM
