Unable to focus? Welcome to our distracted society's attention deficit
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 14:42
in Psychology & Sociology
Understanding the science of attention and technology's role in eroding -- and perhaps someday improving -- our ability to focus Cell phones, Blackberries, e-mail, laptops allowing people to bring their work anywhere, news arriving in perfectly condensed and filtered snippets via the Internet and TV, never before has communication been so instantaneous and information distributed so quickly. Never before have people been so connected.