Modern technology truly is a blessing. We can communicate with loved ones from halfway around the world, look up any factoid at will, and accomplish a multitude of other mind numbing feats.However, one has to wonder what has been lost. The great thinkers, prior to modern marketing techniques, must have been so much more focused. Imagine no internet, mobile phones, television. Not such a bad thought.
If Tolstoy was twittering would War and Peace ever have been written? What if Dostoyevsky was too busy updating his Facebook status to pen Crime and Punishment?
Are we living in the era of anti-thought? It seems as though there are so many stimuli in the digital world that we don’t have to think anymore. We chew and swallow. Consume and digest.
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