The War on Boredom

Think of all of the benefits due to the increase of connectivity over the past few years. We are witnessing before our eyes a shift in social values due to improvements in technology that is similar to the industrial revolution in scale. The ways in which we communicate and act may never be the same.
Now think of all the pitfalls of our ongoing communication and media revolution; can you think of any? Consider for a second the last time you where utterly and hopelessly bored. The near extinction