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“Your importance as revealed by social networking activity can even now be quantified.”

“I worry that [tehcnology] is affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. And I worry that we’re losing that.”
-Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google

“Perhaps even simply being at ease and happy in total silence could become a rareified commodity.”

“Even the most diehard digital zealot cannot escape the simply fact that every hour spent in front of a screen, however wonderful, or even beneficial, is an hour spent not holding someone’s hand or breathing in sea air.”