rebecca's pocket

» Rapt is a new book by Winifred Gallagher that draws on scientific and anecdotal evidence to argue that attention is a finite resource which modern technology encourages us to fritter away on unimportant distracters.

I've been positing this for as long as I've been writing here. But it's worth pointing out that even before this weblog existed, religion has encouraged adherents to quiet their minds through prayer, meditation, and mindfulness. The Buddhist concept of monkey brain existed long before the Internet.