Is modernity with its ubiquitous productivity-enhancing technology tools turning us into a society of hyper-hyperbolic discounters? These questions are worth considering given the findings of Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist who, in his superb book CrazyBusy, discussed the plight of adults who did not have ADD, but for whom a “severe case of modern life” gave them ADD-like symptoms (what he calls “F-state” for “frantic, frenzied, forgetful, flummoxed, frustrated, and fragmented”).
