Just my opinion as a techno-addict.
I wonder about that, myself. Given my recent musings on this whole concept, I wonder if I'm a recovering techno-addict or an up-and-coming Luddite. Will have to do the differential analysis sometime to find out. :)
On my way back from Turin last year, I had an interesting albeit short conversation with a catholic scholar about the mental processes of composition and our phenomenological experiences of writing using various technics. He pointed out to me that he is much more creative and interesting in his prose when he writes with pen and paper. The claim was that his writing hand was much more connected to his creative brain than using both hands in composition on a computer keyboard. My experience is somewhat different, given my usual tortured prose, I can be very productive at a computer screen, but when push comes to shove in editing my work, i almost always print out a draft, triple spaced, and edit by hand. I'm wondering how this might tie into the concern about productivity and quality. We all seem to know that we get a tickle in our pleasure centers when we are included in a conversation, but are there greater and lesser pleasures to pursue, will the pleasure of doing the 'great work' outweigh the pleasure of the next IM for those that become aware that there may be different sorts of pleasure, or will plurality of little joys win out.... thoughts?
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