Yes, the internet is destroying our collective attention span
Posted on AllSides May 3rd, 2019
From The Left
Trending topics rise and disappear faster than ever.
The Mueller report, Avengers: Endgame, the final season of Game of Thrones: These topics are saturating the media right now.
But they’ll soon fade from our attention.
Sune Lehmann is a professor of applied mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Denmark, where he’s been conducted research for the past several years. He, like a lot of us, was wondering, “Am I becoming a grumpy old man, or are things moving more quickly?”
Recently, he and colleagues published a paper...