For some time now, boredom has been far from boring to scientists. In fact, they’ve been very busy trying to get to the bottom of the boredom problem. You see, it’s a problem which seems to be getting worse. Before the industrial revolution, the concept of ‘boredom’ didn’t exist in the English language - there wasn’t a word for it. As we’ll see shortly, that fact alone helps us to understand what this peculiarly modern problem is really all about - and how we can solve it. But first let’s have a look at what the scientists have been doing.
