Technology threatens silence: 'End of Absence' author Michael Harris


Have you ever had the feeling you were everywhere and nowhere at once?

Michael Harris’ epiphany came when, as a writer at Vancouver Magazine, he looked at his computer screen and saw 14 open windows while his smartphone was buzzing almost non-stop. What attention he had left was bouncing back and forth between the two. In that moment, he says, he realised he was everywhere and nowhere at once.

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