. . .  Today, we suffer these same effects of urbanization, centralization, and industrialization, with streams of headlines and articles attempting to help us cope with the constant flood of information and the pace of "modern" society by using "efficiency" and "attention" tips. Contrary to the plethora of self-help books, life-hack websites, and anti-corporate calls for a return to primitive times, answers to our present version of the "modern" dilemma were first discovered shortly after the changes to Paris, and work quite well today.