Hugh McGuire talks about and perhaps demonstrates the negative effects of giving ourselves to digital media on our minds. He says though he loves books, he wasn’t reading them. He had too many distractions. This year, he has set digital boundaries and seen positive results.

“When the people at The New Yorker can’t concentrate long enough to listen to a song all the way through, how are books to survive?”

If that’s the norm in New York, they need a revolution.