For my monthly live talkshow in Amsterdam, Stadsleven (‘City Life’ ) I interviewed internet critic Evgeny Morosov, prolific essayist and author of ‘To Save Everything, Click Here’ (translated in Dutch by publisher De Wereld as ‘Om de wereld te redden, klik hier’). The theme this month (May 2014) is ‘Slow City’, about how to reconquer calm and focus in hectic urban life, and I talked to Morosov about the virtues of boredom and the onslaught on our time and attention by addictive social media. Morosov admits that he is vulnerable too: he sometimes locks away his router cable and smartphone so as to have a chance to be creatively bored.