Tim Gray, writing in the New York Reviews of Books, has a very interesting article that asks whether it has become impossible to find the uninterrupted blocks of time that are needed to read serious works of literature, and whether the change in the reading environment is also changing how books are written.
Ordinarily I ignore the "Computer Bad! Destroy Society!" arguments, but I have to say that what he describes seems all too familiar. I can't recall the last time that I actually sat down for two or three hours just to read.
I grew up spending hours each day, every day devouring books of all sorts. Is this a thing that's lost to people raised with Internet, Game Consoles, and Smartphones? Pardon me if I sound like an old fart.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday June 16 2014, @02:37AM
I have a terrible time concentrating on code when my stupid desk is in an open-plan work area right on a busy corridor. How employers think these environments are supposed to be conducive to work requiring concentration, I have no idea.