Four Contemporary Paradoxes

(A) The more efficiently we are connected to people in distant parts of the world through the Net and email, the more disconnected we feel from those who are in the next room.

(B) The more we know how to do different things, the more we are unsure of precisely what we should do.

(C) The more we feel that we are able to predict the future and keep it resolutely under our control, the more we are filled with anxiety over unknown side-effects such as ecological catastrophes and nuclear fall-outs.

(D) The more we are able to save time, the more we are unsure about how to spend it.