For some years now we have been exposed to a continuous information overload, and things are not showing signs of improving. We are not able to process all this information, so we tend to observe everything with a certain superficiality, nevertheless the desire for information is constant, and seems to grow with the possibilities that technology offers.

All this makes us stupid.

Instead, we need to be active and conscious, let’s leave deep learning to machines, we are human beings, with our precious limitations. We need to focus on one topic at a time, without distractions. This trend is slowly polluting even the workplace. The newspapers write high-sounding headlines but articles full of typos and disconnected periods. This is just one of the signs of this change, which is verifiable in many forms of art, from music to video games. I don’t remember who said that the truth is in the details, in the maze of a very long book, between the lines. Let us not abandon ourselves to this trend, let us seek the truth.

Those few who still know how to be focused, who live in the here and now, will one day find themselves alone, surrounded by intellectually inferior beings, subjugated by machines.