Attention Fracking

All the ways tech / social media are fracking our attention

By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made. We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose extract

But what if the coming revolution is a silent one that will be led by those who, in the face of this increasing activity and ear-splitting noise, choose the anti-mimetic path? Who grow quieter and more intentional?

Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence

Coming of age in the time of social media has inflicted a great deal of psychological trauma upon me and those I love. Nary a birthday goes by without me wondering how many people posted “Happy Birthday!!” on my wall. For a while, that number determined how good of a birthday I’d have. For this and this alone Zuckerberg should be tried before the H... See more

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