Yes, the internet is destroying our collective attention span

Posted on AllSides May 3rd, 2019
From The Left
Internet, attention span

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...

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https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/5/3/18514330/distraction-collective-attention-research

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