The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.
