Comments on: Short Attention Span? It’s Not Your Laptop, Mr. Carr: It’s You

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:29:23 +0000

I’m not sure, I’ve had that issue too but only when DR is running — I’ve never had the problem continue to affect my programs when I’m not using DR in the background!

There’s another text editor that I learned about in the meantime called Q10 that I can recommend, as I used it for a while, so you might try that out, but I continue to use DR for the most part — the encoding that Q10 uses is problematic about the paragraph breaks.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:49:57 +0000

Enjoyed your post – lot of common sense.I am an embattled attention-spanner.But I got Dark Room and now it makes everything else everywhere else go green if you select text – ie not just in DR and when DR is not running.Pls advise?

By: Mark Hurst

Mark Hurst — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:49:00 +0000

Jeremy, you nailed it... people should learn the discipline.

My longer reaction here.

By: Jeremy Hatch

Jeremy Hatch — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:42:00 +0000

Thanks, Garote!

By: garote

garote — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:26:00 +0000

Well said. Many of us who grew up during the tail end of the "dark ages" also have a stock of memories made during revelatory moments, when little pieces of this future were revealed to us...

The first time we connected through a computer to another we'd never physically seen beforehand. The first time we chatted with two people on different continents, for free. The first time we saw little graphical avatars of our friends walking around (and shot at them)...

Each crude milestone that passed just made us more impatient to get this technology out into the world so that other people could improve and generalize it. And that slow spread is, of course, still going on. You want to go back in time and abandon all your internet toys? Just start walking. There are still plenty of clapboard houses in eastern China and rude huts in the Serengeti where you can regain your allegedly stolen attention span. >:)

(True story: I read this short essay on an iPhone while walking to and from the restroom at work.)