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Sports Editor for @WhigNews, father of three great girls. Also do a little broadcasting on side for WGEM.
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Konzentration: Verlieren wir den Fokus im digitalen Alltag?

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By David Adam
| Spektrum.de Verified
Hintergrund Lesedauer ca. 9 Minuten Drucken Teilen Digitale Ablenkung: Verlernen wir, uns zu konzentrieren? Digitale Reize konkurrieren stärker denn je um unsere Aufmerksamkeit. Kein Wunder, dass wir uns immer schlechter konzentrieren können, heißt es oft. Aber stimmt dieser Eindruck überhaupt? Smartphones üben eine starke Anziehungskraft aus, vor allem auf Kinder. An unserer grundsätzlichen Fähigkeit, uns zu kozentrieren, haben digitale Medien jedoch offenbar wenig geändert.
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How to recover your shrinking attention span

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By David Adam
| Scientific American Verified
Digital distractions can undermine our focus, but research suggests that our inherent capacity to pay attention hasn't diminished A century before social-media bans and advice to disable device notifications, the inventor and science-fiction writer Hugo Gernsback proposed a more extreme way to avoid distraction: an isolating wooden helmet.
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Are attention spans really shrinking? What the science says

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By David Adam
| Yahoo Verified
A century before social-media bans and advice to disable device notifications, the inventor and science-fiction writer Hugo Gernsback proposed a more extreme way to avoid distraction: an isolating wooden helmet. Outside influences, he said, were “the greatest difficulty that the human mind has to contend with.” Gernsback’s isolator device — part diving suit, part monastic cell — did help him to work, he said, but it came with a risk of suffocation. He later installed an air supply.
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