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• 06 Jan 10
  

  Tim Challies

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  • I
    had become the embodiment of T S Eliot’s great summary of the modern
    predicament: “Distracted from distraction by distraction”.
  • Attention is the golden key to the mystery of human consciousness; it might
    one day tell us how we make the world in our heads. Attention comes
    naturally to us; attending to what matters is how we survive and define
    ourselves.
  • 2 more annotations...
  • • No human being, he says, can
      effectively write an e-mail and speak on the telephone. Both activities use
      language and the language channel in the brain can’t cope. Multitaskers fool
      themselves by rapidly switching attention and, as a result, their output
      deteriorates.
    • “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have
      lost,”
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• 23 Oct 08
  

  Zhang Hao

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• 08 Oct 08
  

  Scott McCord

  On Wednesday I received 72 e-mails, not counting junk, and only two text messages.

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• 19 Aug 08
  

  Doobii X

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  • Multitaskers fool
    themselves by rapidly switching attention and, as a result, their output
    deteriorates.
  • Yet the rabidly
    multitasking distractee is seen as some kind of social and economic ideal.
  • 4 more annotations...
  • • “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have
      lost,” says Bill McKibben, the great environmentalist.
    • Ironically, the companies most active in denying us our craving for depth, the
      great distracters – Microsoft, Google, IBM, Intel – are trying to do
      something about this. They have formed the Information Overload Research
      Group, “dedicated to promoting solutions to e-mail overload and
      interruptions”.
    • But this isn’t the informational paradise dreamt of by Bill
      Gates and Google: 90% of sites visited by teenagers are social networks.
      They are immersed not in knowledge but in “gossip and social banter”.
    • Every new device on the market is, to return to Eliot, “Filled
      with fancies and empty of meaning / Tumid apathy with no concentration”.
• 11 Aug 08
  

  Helen Crozier
• 09 Aug 08
  

  Paul Ryan

  The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate.

  technology culture google attention distraction email search 1000shards

  • But the damage is not caused by overwork, it’s
    caused by multiple distracted work. One American study found that
    interruptions take up 2.1 hours of the average knowledge worker’s day. This,
    it was estimated, cost the US economy $588 billion a year. Yet the rabidly
    multitasking distractee is seen as some kind of social and economic ideal.

  • 
    “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have
    lost,” says Bill McKibben, the great environmentalist.
    

  • 2 more annotations...
  • • “I feel that much of my life is ebbing away in the tide of minute-by-minute
      distraction . . . I’m not certain what the effect on the world will be. But
      psychologists do say that intense close engagement with things does provide
      the most human satisfaction.” The psychologists are right. McKibben
      describes himself as “loving novelty” and yet “craving depth”, the
      contemporary predicament in a nutshell.
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• 06 Aug 08
  

  Duarte Da Silva

  google attention distraction technology culture learning Times Online

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• 01 Aug 08
  

  Roger Chen

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• 31 Jul 08
  

  David Feld

  "Attention comes naturally to us; attending to what matters is how we survive and define ourselves."

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• 

  Carey Z

  In an influential essay in The Atlantic magazine, Nicholas Carr asks: “Is Google making us stupid?” Carr, a chronic distractee like the rest of us, noticed that he was finding it increasingly difficult to immerse himself in a book or a long article – “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.”
  
  Instead he now Googles his way though life, scanning and skimming, not pausing to think, to absorb.

  google attention distraction technology learning

• 29 Jul 08
  

  Edison Morais

  A Geração Google se ocupa com coisas superficiais e não vive o que importa na vida,

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  • Attention is the golden key to the mystery of human consciousness
  • Instead he now Googles his way though life, scanning and skimming, not pausing
    to think, to absorb.
  • 3 more annotations...
  • • “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have
      lost,”
    • economic forces involved. People make big money out of
      distracting us.
    • like all multitaskers, the kids are
      deluding themselves into thinking that busy-ness is depth when, in fact,
      they are skimming the surface of cyberspace as surely as they are skimming
      the surface of life. It takes an adult imagination to discriminate, to make
      judgments; and those are the only skills that really matter.
• 

  Tetsuya Yano

  lifehacks

  • Distracted: The Erosion of
    Attention and the Coming Dark Age by Maggie Jackson
  • No human being, he says, can
    effectively write an e-mail and speak on the telephone. Both activities use
    language and the language channel in the brain can’t cope. Multitaskers fool
    themselves by rapidly switching attention and, as a result, their output
    deteriorates.
  • 3 more annotations...
  • • Chronic distraction, from which we all now suffer, kills you more slowly.
      Meyer says there is evidence that people in chronically distracted jobs are,
      in early middle age, appearing with the same symptoms of burn-out as air
      traffic controllers. They might have stress-related diseases, even
      irreversible brain damage.
    • “As our attentional skills are squandered, we
      are plunging into a culture of mistrust, skimming and a dehumanising merger
      between man and machine.”
    • Paradoxically, the supreme information provider also has the
      effect of reducing information intake.
• 26 Jul 08
  

  Joel Liu

  culture attention distraction google

  • In an influential essay in The Atlantic magazine, Nicholas Carr asks: “Is
    Google making us stupid?” Carr, a chronic distractee like the rest of us,
    noticed that he was finding it increasingly difficult to immerse himself in
    a book or a long article – “The deep reading that used to come naturally has
    become a struggle.”
    

    
    Instead he now Googles his way though life, scanning and skimming, not pausing
    to think, to absorb. He feels himself being hollowed out by “the replacement
    of complex inner density with a new kind of self – evolving under the
    pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly
    available’”.
    

  • “I feel that much of my life is ebbing away in the tide of minute-by-minute
    distraction . . . I’m not certain what the effect on the world will be. But
    psychologists do say that intense close engagement with things does provide
    the most human satisfaction.” The psychologists are right. McKibben
    describes himself as “loving novelty” and yet “craving depth”, the
    contemporary predicament in a nutshell.
  • 2 more annotations...
  • • Ironically, the companies most active in denying us our craving for depth, the
      great distracters – Microsoft, Google, IBM, Intel – are trying to do
      something about this. They have formed the Information Overload Research
      Group, “dedicated to promoting solutions to e-mail overload and
      interruptions”. None of this will work, of course, because of the
      overwhelming economic forces involved. People make big money out of
      distracting us. So what can be done?
    • The computer is training us not to attend, to drown in the sea of information
      rather than to swim. Jackson thinks this can be fixed. The brain is
      malleable. Just as it can be trained to be distracted, so it can be trained
      to pay attention. Education and work can be restructured to teach and
      propagate the skills of concentration and focus. People can be taught to
      turn off, to ignore the beep and the ping.
• 25 Jul 08
  

  Andrew Graff

  learning internet culture distraction attention articulos interesante

  • if you talk on a mobile phone while driving – even
    legally with a hands-free kit. You listen to language on the phone and lose
    the ability to take in the language of road signs. Worst of all is if your
    caller describes something visual, a wallpaper pattern, a view. As you
    imagine this, your visual channel gets clogged and you start losing your
    sense of the road ahead. Distraction kills – you or others.
  • In an influential essay in The Atlantic magazine, Nicholas Carr asks: “Is
    Google making us stupid?” Carr, a chronic distractee like the rest of us,
    noticed that he was finding it increasingly difficult to immerse himself in
    a book or a long article – “The deep reading that used to come naturally has
    become a struggle.”
  • 6 more annotations...
  • • “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have
      lost,” says Bill McKibben, the great environmentalist.
    • People make big money out of
      distracting us. So what can be done?
    • The first issue is the determination of the distracters to create young
      distractees. Television was the first culprit. Tests clearly show that a
      switched-on television reduces the quality and quantity of interaction
      between children and their parents. The internet multiplies the effect a
      thousandfold. Paradoxically, the supreme information provider also has the
      effect of reducing information intake.
    • 90% of sites visited by teenagers are social networks.
      They are immersed not in knowledge but in “gossip and social banter”.
    • Teenagers are being groomed to
      think others can be picked up on a whim and dropped because of a mood or
      some slight offence. The fear is that the idea of sticking with another
      through thick and thin – the very essence of friendship and love – will come
      to seem absurd, uncool, meaningless.
    • This, for him, puts democracy at risk. It is a form of government that puts “a
      heavy burden of responsibility on our citizens”. But if they think Paris is
      in England and they can’t find Iraq on a map because their world is a social
      network of “friends” – examples of appalling ignorance recently found in
      American teenagers – how can they be expected to shoulder that burden?
• 

  Leyla Bonilla

  learning internet culture distraction attention articulos interesante

  • if you talk on a mobile phone while driving – even
    legally with a hands-free kit. You listen to language on the phone and lose
    the ability to take in the language of road signs. Worst of all is if your
    caller describes something visual, a wallpaper pattern, a view. As you
    imagine this, your visual channel gets clogged and you start losing your
    sense of the road ahead. Distraction kills – you or others.
  • In an influential essay in The Atlantic magazine, Nicholas Carr asks: “Is
    Google making us stupid?” Carr, a chronic distractee like the rest of us,
    noticed that he was finding it increasingly difficult to immerse himself in
    a book or a long article – “The deep reading that used to come naturally has
    become a struggle.”
  • 6 more annotations...
  • • “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have
      lost,” says Bill McKibben, the great environmentalist.
    • People make big money out of
      distracting us. So what can be done?
    • The first issue is the determination of the distracters to create young
      distractees. Television was the first culprit. Tests clearly show that a
      switched-on television reduces the quality and quantity of interaction
      between children and their parents. The internet multiplies the effect a
      thousandfold. Paradoxically, the supreme information provider also has the
      effect of reducing information intake.
    • 90% of sites visited by teenagers are social networks.
      They are immersed not in knowledge but in “gossip and social banter”.
    • Teenagers are being groomed to
      think others can be picked up on a whim and dropped because of a mood or
      some slight offence. The fear is that the idea of sticking with another
      through thick and thin – the very essence of friendship and love – will come
      to seem absurd, uncool, meaningless.
    • This, for him, puts democracy at risk. It is a form of government that puts “a
      heavy burden of responsibility on our citizens”. But if they think Paris is
      in England and they can’t find Iraq on a map because their world is a social
      network of “friends” – examples of appalling ignorance recently found in
      American teenagers – how can they be expected to shoulder that burden?
• 

  FruFru FourOne

  google technology attention distraction stoooopid

• 24 Jul 08
  

  Rem Palpitt

  The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate

  google générationY connaissance US usages

• 

  Trudi Green

  multitask google email distraction

  • They have formed the Information Overload Research
    Group, “dedicated to promoting solutions to e-mail overload and
    interruptions”. None of this will work, of course, because of the
    overwhelming economic forces involved. People make big money out of
    distracting us. So what can be done?
• 

  Gosia Stergios

  More on the chronic distraction casued by Internet, Google and new mobile technologies

  information_behavior

• 

  Isaac Pigott

  The opposite of attention is distraction, an unnatural condition and one that, as Meyer discovered in 1995, kills. Now he is convinced that chronic, long-term distraction is as dangerous as cigarette smoking. In particular, there is the great myth of mult

  culture technology google internet learning occam delicious

• 

  Dave Duarte

  Describes some of the issues around Attention deficity and losing out lives one distraction at a time.

  attention EBM

• 23 Jul 08
  

  Patrick Higgins

  From the article:
  The concern of all these writers and thinkers is that it is precisely these skills that will vanish from the world as we become infantilised cyber-serfs, our entertainments and impulses maintained and controlled by the techno-geek aristocracy. They have all noted – either in themselves or in others – diminishing attention spans, inability to focus, a loss of the meditative mode. “I can’t read War and Peace any more,” confessed one of Carr’s friends. “I’ve lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.

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  Rob Pfeifer

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  Clive McGoun

  "Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, has just written The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardises Our Future. He portrays a bibliophobic generation of teens, incapable of sustainin

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  C Brown

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  beth filarwilliams

  Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks
  The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate

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• 

  Mario A Núñez

  lecturas_interesantes

  • But, listen carefully, it’s
    killing me and it’s killing you.
  • is that we now go outside of ourselves to
    make all the connections that we used to make inside of ourselves.
• 

  Miguel Mendoza

  ICT

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  Geraldo Medrano

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  Tim Chambers

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  Roney Smith

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• 22 Jul 08
  

  Juan Quintero

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  Dorota Tylus

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• 

  Caitlin McNally

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  • David Meyer is professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. In 1995
    his son was killed by a distracted driver who ran a red light. Meyer’s
    speciality was attention: how we focus on one thing rather than another.
    Attention is the golden key to the mystery of human consciousness; it might
    one day tell us how we make the world in our heads. Attention comes
    naturally to us; attending to what matters is how we survive and define
    ourselves
  • One American study found that
    interruptions take up 2.1 hours of the average knowledge worker’s day. This,
    it was estimated, cost the US economy $588 billion a year.
  • 2 more annotations...
  • • Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, has just
      written The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young
      Americans and Jeopardises Our Future. He portrays a bibliophobic generation
      of teens, incapable of sustaining concentration long enough to read a book.
      And learning a poem by heart just strikes them as dumb.
    • Ironically, the companies most active in denying us our craving for depth, the
      great distracters – Microsoft, Google, IBM, Intel – are trying to do
      something about this. They have formed the Information Overload Research
      Group, “dedicated to promoting solutions to e-mail overload and
      interruptions”. None of this will work, of course, because of the
      overwhelming economic forces involved. People make big money out of
      distracting us. So what can be done?
• 

  Tara McGowan

  Great article tying Jackson's Distraction to Carr's Google article and making broader conclusions about how we are changing as our attention diminishes.

  attention brainresearch brain google Carr MaggieJackson distraction youth socialnetworking cognition social

  • David Meyer is professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. In 1995
    his son was killed by a distracted driver who ran a red light. Meyer’s
    speciality was attention: how we focus on one thing rather than another.
    Attention is the golden key to the mystery of human consciousness; it might
    one day tell us how we make the world in our heads. Attention comes
    naturally to us; attending to what matters is how we survive and define
    ourselves.
  • No human being, he says, can
    effectively write an e-mail and speak on the telephone. Both activities use
    language and the language channel in the brain can’t cope. Multitaskers fool
    themselves by rapidly switching attention and, as a result, their output
    deteriorates.
  • 11 more annotations...
  • • One American study found that
      interruptions take up 2.1 hours of the average knowledge worker’s day. This,
      it was estimated, cost the US economy $588 billion a year.
    • Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, has just
      written The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young
      Americans and Jeopardises Our Future. He portrays a bibliophobic generation
      of teens, incapable of sustaining concentration long enough to read a book.
    • “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have
      lost,” says Bill McKibben, the great environmentalist.
    • Microsoft, Google, IBM, Intel – are trying to do
      something about this. They have formed the Information Overload Research
      Group, “dedicated to promoting solutions to e-mail overload and
      interruptions”. None of this will work, of course, because of the
      overwhelming economic forces involved. People make big money out of
      distracting us
    • Tests clearly show that a
      switched-on television reduces the quality and quantity of interaction
      between children and their parents. The internet multiplies the effect a
      thousandfold.
    • 90% of sites visited by teenagers are social networks.
      They are immersed not in knowledge but in “gossip and social banter”.
    • They are “living off the thrill of
      peer attention. Meanwhile, their intellects refuse the cultural and civic
      inheritance that has made us what we are now”.
    • All internet
      connections are threadbare. They lack the complexity and depth of real-world
      interactions. This is concealed by the language.
    • Teenagers are being groomed to
      think others can be picked up on a whim and dropped because of a mood or
      some slight offence. The fear is that the idea of sticking with another
      through thick and thin – the very essence of friendship and love – will come
      to seem absurd, uncool, meaningless.
    • ike all multitaskers, the kids are
      deluding themselves into thinking that busy-ness is depth when, in fact,
      they are skimming the surface of cyberspace as surely as they are skimming
      the surface of life.
    • what is new is the assiduity
      with which companies and institutions are selling us the tools of
      distraction. Every new device on the market is, to return to Eliot, “Filled
      with fancies and empty of meaning / Tumid apathy with no concentration”.
• 

  timeuser

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  Betzi Bateman

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  Martin Menu

  The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate

  Y-Gen attention

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  Albert B Fernandez

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  Robert Fairbairn

  I wonder if being online with SAAS, etc.. will make this worse?

• 

  Morris Pelzel

  tech

• 21 Jul 08
  

  Nancy Jones

  Google distraction internet learning culture technology attention behavior trends

• 

  Anne Bubnic

  The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate.

  ad4dcss digital learning

  • Distracted: The Erosion of
    Attention and the Coming Dark Age
  • Attention is the golden key to the mystery of human consciousness; it might
    one day tell us how we make the world in our heads. Attention comes
    naturally to us; attending to what matters is how we survive and define
    ourselves.
  • 2 more annotations...
  • • Multitaskers fool
      themselves by rapidly switching attention and, as a result, their output
      deteriorates.
    • Meyer says there is evidence that people in chronically distracted jobs are,
      in early middle age, appearing with the same symptoms of burn-out as air
      traffic controllers. They might have stress-related diseases, even
      irreversible brain damage. But the damage is not caused by overwork, it’s
      caused by multiple distracted work. One American study found that
      interruptions take up 2.1 hours of the average knowledge worker’s day
• 

  Ryan Bretag

  multitasking google netgeneration

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  Sirchy A

  More on attention, distraction, etc

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  Scott Thompson

  attention distraction googlegeneration delicious

• 20 Jul 08
  

  Ayman van Bregt

  Marketing

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