Nicholas Carr, in "The Shallows," William Powers, in "Hamlet's BlackBerry," and Sherry Turkle, in "Alone Together," all bear intimate witness to a sense that the newfound land, the ever-present BlackBerry-and-instant-message world, is one whose price, paid in frayed nerves and lost reading hours and broken attention, is hardly worth the gains it gives us.
When the scandal initially broke, attention was focused on the battery technology of Renault and its partner, Nissan Motor.
When the H1N1 swine-flu pandemic stole headlines in the summer of 2009, Google searches went through the roof long before most people fell ill.In this section Repairing broken hearts Attention, citizens!
At a time when it is hard to raise new capital, the firm has decided to concentrate on anticancer therapies that, it hopes, are nearer to being commercial propositions than the stem-cell study is.In this section Repairing broken hearts Attention, citizens!
One of the best meets one of the worst with predictable results In the absence of club cricket over the Christmas break, attention was drawn to this fabulous restoration of Sir Donald Bradman's childhood home in Bowral by the owner's Twitter account, which publishes an array of Bradman-related photographs and information.
As European businesses and financial markets got back to work this week after the holiday break, attention focused on Greece and the possibility that Syriza, a populist leftwing movement, may repudiate the country's EU bailout debts if it wins snap elections on 25 January.
It's sort of cosmic to contemplate the idea of breaking down attention into its anatomical components.
Even if his personal circumstances had been different, would there ever have been a way to sustain such detail without completely breaking the attention spans of readers?
When the jobs that many of these boys will do will revolve around a screen, managing multiple tasks and breaking up attention spans accordingly, why do we still revere the long stretch of time?
All of these things break our attention and lead to shallower thinking.
When the real irrupts in our daily life whether innocuously as a high pitch noise that breaks our attention or more painfully as a deer that runs straight into our car on a highway it serves to remind us of the inextricably contingent nature of existence.
