A PAGE WORTH VIEWING.
A quote from Michael Crichton's novel, "TIMELINE".
"Today, everybody expects to be entertained, and they expect to be entertained all the time.
Business meetings must be snappy, with bullet lists and animated graphics, so executives aren't bored. Malls
and stores must be engaging, so they amuse us well as sell us. Politicians must have pleasing video personalities
and tell only what we want to hear. Schools must be careful not to bore young minds that expect the speed
and complexity of television. Students must be amused - everyone must be amused, or they will switch:
switch brands, switch channels, switch parties, switch loyalties. This is the intellectual reality of Western
society at the end of the century.( 20th)
"In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our
century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A
sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not
amused."