News Summary

• Gloria Mark, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, has spent the last 30 years studying how people interact with digital technologies.
• In 2003, she found that the average user had an attention span of around two and a half minutes.
• In research she conducted between 2014 and 2020, attention spans shrank further still.
• And it’s not good for us.
• “It just takes longer to do any single task if you’re switching your attention,” she says.