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This is great! Didn't know what the ZX Spectrum was, and this was a nice little video.
One interesting thing is, to me at least - a musician, is that the Spectrums are not necessarily in tune; the first one playing the melody seems sharper than all the others. I wonder if the devs were aware of this, and tried fixing it?..
I thought this was well-written, and pretty much spot on for most of us. The 'onto-the-next' part is scarily true for me. I always want to finish something, so I can continue onto whatever's next. Maybe this is normal.
I know for myself that, when putting something on the television, I'll pop out my mobile not too much later after, just to check up on things. It's very much the modern day curse, I think, and we seem to have no real constraint. We get these positive reinforcements ("Ooh, new e-mail. Ooh, new message from a friend. Ooh, something new and unknown and exciting.") from constantly not being present, so that's why we keep doing it.
Personally, I bought myself an e-reader and I already read a full book in a week or so. I'm not an avid reader, but I love books. The key was, for me at least, to read one chapter at a time. That way I always got progress each time I read.
It seems to me that there are way too many variables that aren't really measurable for this to be completely accurate -- such as this example, some people probably had programmed before.