Daniel Cornwall

“Erecting barriers against the existential is not new—before YouTube we had (and still have) mindless television and heavy drinking to help avoid deeper questions—but the advanced technologies of the twenty-first-century attention economy are particularly effective at this task.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

“Amazingly, life went on largely undisturbed as Chesbrough’s team raised the city’s buildings. One British visitor observed a 750-ton hotel being lifted, and described the surreal experience in a letter: “The people were in [the hotel] all the time coming and going, eating and sleeping—the whole business of the hotel proceeding without interruption”
― Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

“*wakes up and looks at phone* ah let’s see what fresh horrors await me on the fresh horrors device –@MISSOKISTIC IN A TWEET ON NOVEMBER 10, 2016”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“What we hope for includes the wise human leadership and initiative which will, like that of Joseph in Egypt, bring about fresh and healing policies and actions”
― N.T. Wright, God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath