MarkOly - 3:08 am on Mar 12, 2013 (gmt 0)

How much time do kids these days actually look at their surroundings or listen to a bird chirping?

I was thinking about this the other day. Remember being bored when you were a kid? I mean bat s** bored, where you either had to sit there alone with your thoughts. Or when you were with your friends, there was nothing to do but get in trouble.

Now every second of a kid's life must be filled with stimulus. It's coming in from every direction, at an obscene rate. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out. Will the breakneck flow of information stimulate creativity? Or will the lack of downtime stifle creativity?