Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains
Deeply aware of the irony that I half read this whilst a TV was in the room, and kept getting distracted...
Wired has an interesting intro to a book on attention:
"The other important thing is to discuss interruption as an environmental question and collective social issue. In our country, stillness and reflection are not especially valued in the workplace. The image of success is the frenetic multitasker who doesn't have time and is constantly interrupted. By striving towards this model of inattention, we're doing ourselves a tremendous injustice."
I'm really interested in the ideas from this book - many of my peers feel, at least some of the time, like we've developed some level of ADD; 'thin slicing' our attention into ever smaller elements; I think it's definitely the downside of constant feeds of information and this techo-peripatetic lifestyle.
