I'll go into greater detail
I'll go into greater detail about the talk with Douglas Rushkoff later in the day. But in the meantime, one of the things he suggested was that Attention Deficit Disorder was a disease that gained vast prominence in the US as corporations responded to the threat to advertising revenue that the internet, interactive technology and remote controls posed. Interestingly, I stumbled upon an article this morning in Scientific American that goes directly against this assertion - and which goes to show that it is possible still for people to argue effectively and scientifically against the devices which are funded by paid-for meme propogation and cultural programming. That is - it is still possible for people to fight against television.
