Subverting Our Need for Accomplishment

A false sense of accomplishment is not a new problem. A century ago, some wasted their precious time reading romance and mystery novels. After that, it was television and comic books. Video gaming and social networking are just a new form of daydreaming, an activity as old as humanity. Don Quixote began battling windmills over four hundred years ago. However, technology is much more successful in subverting the ways our brains are wired, turning our most powerful impulses to find success against us.