Digital Fatigue Quotes

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

Paradoxically, I think working at an Internet magazine intensifies the attraction of beautiful printed objects.

Live comedy in a club, with an audience - it's hard to recreate that experience in a digital world. With Zoom, your face is there the whole time, and you feel like you have to always be on. You feel like you always have to be paying attention, and it can be exhausting.

I'm good with digital technology, but I start to miss the physical world. I miss riding my bike, talking to friends.

I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long time but recently realized I don't get anything from it. I told myself it was luxury, but it was really only annoying. I'd rather just watch the same 50 movies over and over.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

I spent all day in front of a digital screen, but I'm about to curl up with a book.

To be honest, I joined Facebook as an experiment. I accepted all invitations just to see how many people would ask to be 'friends' - it quickly overwhelmed my time to process even the invitations and requests, let alone to actually go there and do anything.

Social media overwhelms me.

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications, and you have to work it out. The great thing about books is that you have a tactile thing that's there. You can download this or download that, but how long do you want to be staring at a screen for the rest of your life? You've got to have some kind of proper interface for people that's not about the screen.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

I think that it's really important to step back and to take breaks as a digital creator because every other kind of platform is kind of set up to have seasons or time off or at least a barrier between creator and consumer. You have these set-up boundaries.

I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.

I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

I think that technology - computers and smart phones and 24-hour availability - often leaves me, and others I know, feeling blank and depressed at the end of a day. I also believe that hyped expectations for raising children leaves many women and men feeling as if their days are a blur of carpools and play-groups and tutors.

People are flooded with information every day, and normal guys everywhere try valiantly to stay up with all the technology. But they can't quite do it. I know how those guys feel.

When something is coming off of a Neve board and being laid down on tape, it's like a warm blanket for the brain. When you're working in a digital form, it's so harsh; it's almost painful. Your ears get more fatigued if you're mixing all day.

Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.

People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.