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Stop Blaming Our Smartphones

Richard Bradbury | Jeff Sandhu | Christine Wong

23-Aug-18 12:00

Stop Blaming Our Smartphones

It’s a well-known fact that our attention spans have decreased over the past few years, some being even shorter than that of a goldfish. But are our smartphones really to be blamed here? New research shows that we’ve always been terrible at focusing and it’s just an evolution of our species, smartphone or not.


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Tags:  Attention SpanFocusSmartphonesThe InternetEvolution





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