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Navigating The Media Maelstrom-- How Our Hyper-Connected Age Is Destroying Attention Spans, Eroding Critical-Thinking & Tearing Us Apart

-by David DeGrawThe multi-tabbed, multi-screen, multi-channeled, multi-media prism through which we currently experience the world is already wreaking havoc with our ability to think clearly.The constant competition between signals clawing for attention erodes our ‘working memory’-- the neural architecture associated with our capacity for controlled attention and complex reasoning.Increasingly we interact with information through stimulus-driven attention;