Probably the best article you will read on the subject of internet, the infoflow and attention, superb writing, and of course I totally agree with the last lines, but you will have to read all of it and reach the zen state brought to you courtesy of over-stimulation

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Certainly all new technologies bring with them various moral panics. It's not that long ago that Governor Winthrop prayed God would preserve the nascent America from universal literacy. (I sometimes think God answered his prayers). Digital art, including digital narrative forms, sweeps unstoppable through contemporary western culture but you won't be hard pressed to find oldies bemoaning the diminution of attention skills requisite for linear text (not that the oldies remotely possess an iota of the cultural competences for engagement with new art and the exciting new generalised cognitive styles). Separately, for me, I have to have distractions all around me before I can concentrate. Iguana goa whatever alabama 3 all its literal boneheads.