I dare you: patience and technology
Attention and patience are the well known concepts which seem today to be increasingly under pressure. New media provides us with information and entertainment within a mouse click, and before we know it we are already somewhere else looking at something different. New media and technologies have made us becoming bored are faster than ever.
The success of a movie is many times determined on the basis of the first few seconds. Then we give our opinions and we share it with others. Google said that if their results four tenths of a second slower load they lose 4 million searches per day. Today’s digital world rests entirely on speed, endless information consumption and constant drive to boost our attention. Our time is limited and we want immediately what we search for or what captivates us and otherwise we lose attention immediately. It is all a logical result of the availability of entertainment and content online. We do no have to get bored any time. The first seconds of our attention span is reduced to microseconds with all its consequences.
We have an infinite world of entertainment at our fingertips. Information, entertainment and contact possibilities are endless. We decide what we see, share and appreciate. This abundance has made us impatient. We should not miss anything, want to know everything, and where possible share with anyone. We are talking about FOMO (fear of missing out) and JOMO (joy of missing out) in one sentence. Whatever it may be. Patience and attention have become scarce concepts. We have unlearned the concepts. Being offline makes us feel uncomfortable and just doing nothing is certainly undesirable. Busy is a status symbol. But a status symbol of the stupid. Stop the glorification of being busy is a nice statement herein.
We run after each other and forget what the direction is. We don’t know why we see or do the this we see or do. We live in a world of continuously short term content snacks and entertainment. The result is that we seem to lack the focus, depth and attention for our surrounding world. Attention and patience are the things for the weekend. An hour at breakfast will do it.After that it’s running with the issues of the day.
Those people who have attention, show patience are able to make a difference. That’s my opinion! This new ear of new technologies has given us the tools to connect more with each other. We should use those great technologies to connect from true attention and from a mindset of patience. You will see what will happen then. Nice test for this: can you sit out the video below?
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