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Why You Should Spend Time Doing Nothing, According to Science

In the 1950s,  scholars worried that , thanks to technological innovations, Americans wouldn't know what to do with all of their leisure time. Yet today, as sociologist Juliet Schor  notes , Americans are overworked, putting in more hours than at any time since the Depression and more than in any other in Western society. It's probably not unrelated to the fact that instant and constant access has become de rigueur, and our devices constantly expose us to a barrage of colliding and clamoring messages: "Urgent," "Breaking News," "For immediate release," "Answer needed ASAP." Advertisement It disturbs our leisure time, our family time – even our consciousness. Over the past decade, I've tried to understand the social and psychological effects of our growing interactions with new information and communication technologies, a topic I examine in my book " The Terminal Self: Everyday Life in Hypermodern Times ."