I set my phone down weary of the constant bombardment of images ideas and notifications that the little screen broadcasted Then I picked it up and turned it on again Why In his book The Shallows Nicholas Carr describes how the internet has shaped our relationship with stillness ldquo What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation Whether I rsquo m online or not my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it in a swiftly moving stream of particles Once I was a scuba diver in [... more]