I Was So Right About Distraction in Now You See it: Darn it all!

By Cathy Davidson. In Now You See It, I make the point that there is no real, solid, replicatable evidence that one technology makes you "dumber" or more "distracted" intrinsically than another. Blaming "the Internet" or "social media" for contemporary distraction falls into a typical pattern of one genereration blaming any new technology for supposed ills, including supposed shortcomings of the younger generation (who seem to adopt new technologies and adapt to them much more easily than do their parents). More...