The almost lost art of boredom: when scrolling stifles the factory of progress

Boredom is disappearing. Not as a result of deliberate policy, but through the accumulation of daily micro-gestures: the hand that grabs the phone in a queue, the thumb that scrolls through a news feed during a commute, the screen that lights up as soon as a second of emptiness presents itself. This disappearance might seem innocuous. She is not. Because boredom, such as neuroscience the docum