Saturday, January 27, 2024

Inside the Digital Skinner Box

The hunger for constant, instant digital stimulation has made Skinner Box pigeons of the lot of us. The need for the digital fix turns out to be as compulsive as yanking the levers on a slot machine, training the human attention span to be reduced to that of a gnat.

1 comment:

  1. Jim Hampton:
    Well said. I notice this most when I’m reading. My ability to focus in a longer term has gone down. I suppose that can be recaptured easily, though.

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