The key situational challenges of contemporary interactions
The old, funky television show “The Outer Limits” had one of the most creative openings I can remember. The screen you were watching would begin as a test pattern. Then suddenly it would begin to morph and act erratically as an ominous voice would begin to narrate, “There is nothing wrong with your television set” […]
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I'm pooped. I mean it. Our contemporary culture and its accompanying stresses has left me exhausted. Not in the physical sense, mind you, but in the mental. The speed at which everything runs today is zapping my cognitive resistance. What is eroding in me is attention. I can't focus. Despite our wondrous technologies and scientific […]