The New York Times has a lengthy feature that many will file under “I told you so”! In a sense it gives chapter and verse to this 2002 Vatican quote (section 2) “…Internet.. changes not just in how people communicate but in how they understand their lives.” Compare this with “The technology is rewiring our brains,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse and one of the world’s leading brain scientists.
If you have the time this video about our attitudes towards time is well worth the time… and may reveal something about each of our own attitudes toward time!
Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.