In the 25 years that the internet has been around, the connected among us have had the superficial, disorganized part of our brain treated to a feast. Simultaneously, the remaining hard working, focused part of the brain wastes away. When the New York Times asked Alessandro Acquisti, professor of IT at Carnegie Mellon, to design “an experiment to measure the brain power lost when someone is interrupted”, the results were “dismal”. Test takers who were distracted were 20% dumber. That’s enough to turn “a B-minus student (80 percent) into a failure (62 percent)”. The body of evidence only grows. One...
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