Did modernity kill contemplation?

Reaction vs. response.

I don't want to go super deep on this because it's a pretty nuanced topic, but I just want to try and frame the edges here if I may. First I want you to consider this quote:

Even more alarmingly, Foer writes, big tech increasingly influences not just what we know, but also how we think and what we do, by gathering vast quantities of our personal data and…