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The technology-led attentiveness crisis
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"information consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently ...
instead of reaping the benefits of the digital revolution we are intellectually deprived by our inability to filter out sensory junk... we are collectively wiser... but individually more ignorant...
a cognitive change from deeper intellectual processing, such as focused and critical thinking, to fast autopilot processes, such as skimming and scanning, shifting neural activity from the hippocampus ... to the prefrontal cortex ...
The internet is an interruption system. It seizes our attention only to scramble it”
- The distraction economy: how technology downgraded attention | Media Network | The Guardian
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