Pico Iyer writes in NY Times on "The Joy of Quiet"

"About a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most interested in, he began — I braced myself for mention of some next-generation stealth campaign — was stillness"  Read the rest of Pico's December 29th, 2011 posting in the NY Times here: The Joy of Quiet, blog post by Pico Iyer