Comments on: the world is exploding http://squarerootofnine.com/blog/the-world-is-exploding/ the home page of squarerootofnine.com Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:55:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: the future is now – Trey Hill Photographs http://squarerootofnine.com/blog/the-world-is-exploding/comment-page-1/#comment-237 the future is now – Trey Hill Photographs Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:18:13 +0000 http://squarerootofnine.com/?p=770#comment-237 [...] is good for the soul. it forces you to take stock of what’s important, dig down to find your inner Ben Franklin and get to work. necessity is truly the mother of invention and i couldn’t be any more [...] [...] is good for the soul. it forces you to take stock of what’s important, dig down to find your inner Ben Franklin and get to work. necessity is truly the mother of invention and i couldn’t be any more [...]

]]> By: severnyproductions http://squarerootofnine.com/blog/the-world-is-exploding/comment-page-1/#comment-201 severnyproductions Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:41:00 +0000 http://squarerootofnine.com/?p=770#comment-201 true, true true, true

]]> By: Steve http://squarerootofnine.com/blog/the-world-is-exploding/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Steve Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:34:00 +0000 http://squarerootofnine.com/?p=770#comment-202 “For our time, given the tools and opportunities we all have, he’d be a certified legend.” I sometimes wonder if all of the tools and opportunities we have just lead to distractions and lack of focus. If Ben F. was doing his thing nowadays, would he have invented Twitter or would he have been so distracted by it that his net productiveness would have been impacted negatively? How much *more* would I be able to accomplish if I lived in the late 1700’s? How much less distraction did that era provide? Reading, music and conversation were the Network TV, iTunes and Facebook of the day. So much quieter, slow-paced and personal…with time in between breaths to think. I guess the question to ask is this: Do we have more Ben Franklins in 2009 than we had in 1779? I’m not so sure. I, for one, am happy that our Ben was around just when he was and I think a lot of us should take a look at his example and learn something about pace and priority from it. “For our time, given the tools and opportunities we all have, he’d be a certified legend.”

I sometimes wonder if all of the tools and opportunities we have just lead to distractions and lack of focus. If Ben F. was doing his thing nowadays, would he have invented Twitter or would he have been so distracted by it that his net productiveness would have been impacted negatively?

How much *more* would I be able to accomplish if I lived in the late 1700’s? How much less distraction did that era provide? Reading, music and conversation were the Network TV, iTunes and Facebook of the day. So much quieter, slow-paced and personal…with time in between breaths to think.

I guess the question to ask is this: Do we have more Ben Franklins in 2009 than we had in 1779? I’m not so sure. I, for one, am happy that our Ben was around just when he was and I think a lot of us should take a look at his example and learn something about pace and priority from it.

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