When was the last time you read a book?
A real book, with no hyperlinks and no embedded videos.
When was the last time you read beyond a few paragraphs online?
That itch to click got to you?
Has wisdom become byte-size?
Has the man-machine become a drone?
Why invent robots when humans can be turned into automatons.
Every revolution in storing and distributing information has had its critics. But the methods of production have also influenced what is written and how it is read. Or are we going back to a medieval world of illiteracy and visual information?
Has the rush to be informed stopped us from thinking?
Some of the more self-aware thinkers are finding that the very structure of information on the internet is leading to a kind of paralysis of thought.
The answer is surely the next click away.
But the mathematics of random walks has a cautionary tale to tell. People assume the random walker staggers around the straight path, but this is not so. In most cases our peripatetic surfer will stray far away from the initial route, possibly only coming back after a very long detour.
Perhaps as we reach a crescendo of information overload we come to the realisation that none of it is really, fundamentally important.
In an open world there are times to close the doors and concentrate on one thing.
What is important?

Now click this - you know you want to.

The last click is the one that goes off in our minds.