If you pay attention to the way you feel after you’ve spent an entire day on technology, you’ll know without any doubt that it has affected you. I’ve heard the feeling described as edgy, agitated, sick, empty, amped up, depleted, anxious, deadened, unfocused, burned out, depressed, scattered, jumpy, and irritable, among other things, but, in general, people do not describe a positive feeling. Technology turns the world into a cruise-ship buffet of information, one that never closes, and we are bingeing on this banquet, making ourselves sick with nonstop ingestion of too much information. Even
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