Post by Vince Scolaro

"The Capacity to be Bored" Have we lost it? Steven Poole, author of "Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution," proposes we have: "Pinball, for [Andreas Bernard], was a way of 'killing time,' an antidote to boredom. Today we have lost the capacity to be bored. Smartphones 'have made it possible to fill in, immediately, an interval of emptiness.'" Quote and other information from "The Arc of the Silver Ball," Poole's review of "Same Player Shoots Again" by Andreas Bernard