Cartoon (life considered): attention erosion

Posted by Guy Downes on March 12, 2010 under Cartoons | Be the First to Comment

I’ve been doing some reading online recently about how well we’re coping (or not coping) living in a hyper-connected and ’want it all now’ society. I came across this book, which looks fascinating. It’s called ‘Distracted – The Erosion of Attention and The Coming Dark Age’ by Maggie Jackson.

It triggered this cartoon based on my own experience. Trying to get big chunks of work done and uninterupted time for creative thinking is getting harder as we are bombarded with Twitter, email, IM, phones, SMS etc. My best solution: switch everything off when you need to.