Attention spans have deteriorated due to a tyranny of attention—overwhelming demands from multiple directions that exceed our mental bandwidth capacity.
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Richard CytowicEvidence Quote
“Everyone agrees that our attention spans have gone to hell. I call it a tyranny of attention because there's so many demands on our attention coming from so many different directions that we are simply overwhelmed and we don't have the mental bandwidth to cope with it.”
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