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What do you say when the Internet age asks you are your inner search engines really capable of seeing more than one thing at a time? The post-Google generation might watch Attenborough’s Gandhi while downloading three better films […] To misquote John Lennon for the iPad generation, reading is what happens to you when you’re making other plans. […] Many articles have been written on how the Internet age has essentially created distraction — but I think we’re way beyond it. Today, distraction is the new concentration.[…] YouTube will eventually replace television not only because it gives you the best bits of entertainment in three-minute capsules but literally places other stuff that may be better on the right hand side of what you’re watching, as if saying, “I know you’re concentrating for a good four minutes for this clip, you poor thing, but here are four other, better, things you could be watching.” Well, you convinced now: “…you have to be seen seeing five different things. The age of seeing one thing is over.” Image source: Weapons of Mass Distraction (by Hunter Langston)

What do you say when the Internet age asks you are your inner search engines really capable of seeing more than one thing at a time?

The post-Google generation might watch Attenborough’s Gandhi while downloading three better films […] To misquote John Lennon for the iPad generation, reading is what happens to you when you’re making other plans. […] Many articles have been written on how the Internet age has essentially created distraction — but I think we’re way beyond it. Today, distraction is the new concentration.[…] YouTube will eventually replace television not only because it gives you the best bits of entertainment in three-minute capsules but literally places other stuff that may be better on the right hand side of what you’re watching, as if saying, “I know you’re concentrating for a good four minutes for this clip, you poor thing, but here are four other, better, things you could be watching.”

Well, you convinced now: “…you have to be seen seeing five different things. The age of seeing one thing is over.”

Image source: Weapons of Mass Distraction (by Hunter Langston)

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