Genevieve Bell, Intel anthropologist - 10 visions of the future. A must read - claudiabenassi's digital mix
Why? It’s all because boredom isn’t deemed possible until the industrial revolution. Before that you had idle and as Bell tells us “boredom and idle are two very different things”.
“It’s become impossible to do nothing. We all now feel that we should be doing something.”
“There is a notion that not being connected means you are bored. Not being bored means you are connected.”
Unfortunately for Bell, it’s really hard to study.
