ABSTRACT
Man will see around the world. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at span.
— John Elfreth Watkins Jr., “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years,” The Ladies’ Home Journal, 1900
L ike it or not we inhabit an incredibly hyperconnected, information-saturated world, and we are suering from a severe form of global attention deƒcit disorder as we are incessantly bombarded by more and more information and stimuli.
