Media Habits - Thought Interupting Invasion is Underway?

"We invest in the swapping of trivialities,” he said, “precious time that we could use for serious reflection. I want to believe that when we stumble upon black holes of silence on the net, that depends at least in part on someone reacting against the tyranny of hyperconnection.
“There must be brave and smart souls who came to realize that thinking is more important than communicating,” he continued. “I see them in my mind’s eye a brave minority, sitting in silence, pondering and planning — the way it used to be.”

Is Anyone There? By HENRY ALFORD Published: July 15, 2011 

Another monk’s assistant wrote back after 50 hours to say that his boss was busy at a United Nations conference. Finally, some 75 hours after being contacted — and after his e-mail to me had bounced back to him— the Rev. Master Jisho Perry, a monk at the Shasta Abbey in Mount Shasta, Calif., counseled me, “Patience is the ability to end our expectations.”
He added that the computer industry’s perennial promise of faster and faster service is a “delusion.”
Delineating a difference between immediate, visceral reacting to stimuli, and calm, reflective responding to same, he encouraged me to be “still enough to respond rather than react.”
I’m trying to be still. I’m trying not to wiggle. When I saw the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production at the Park Avenue Armory the other night, I took solace. No piece of mail that does not reach me will ever prove as dire as the one that didn’t reach Romeo."