News Summary

• The world is in a tizzy about your new incapacity to focus.
• Entire industries are wondering how to deliver their products to you in that fleeting time when you are attentive.
• Yet, I do not believe it is true that attention spans have changed significantly over the decades.
• People’s minds have always wandered.
• And most of them couldn’t bear to spend too much time with their own minds.
• The real world, outside the phone, is so glorified today.
• A distraction is a kind of boredom that looks like entertainment.