"We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought"

At last, access to rss feeds - but oh my gosh, there's so much info piling in to the reader.

Came across this today: “In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought” – Michael Crichton.

How true - today I also read of an grad student who's written an applet that prohibits him accessing his computer for a set period (set by him, depending on how much thinking time he feels he needs).

Re some of our 'set questions': What I love is having it all come to me rather than go out looking for it - though for most of what I get now, I get via email alerts anyway. And now, G Reader is just another place I have to check.

I subbed to several of the suggested sites, and added a few blogs of people who always make me think - and then I got carried away creating folders so I could keep like feeds with like - what this does though is limit how much you see since the latest feeds display for each folder - must see if I can change this so just the latest of any folders shows up and I just use the folders if I want to go back and check something.