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Distracted:
We are now so surrounded by virtual experiences… that we’ve slipped into accepting its reality unthinkingly.
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047 |
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Distracted:
Whether you call it being multifaceted or being fragmented, at its heart networked individualism is about diffusion.
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059 |
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Distracted:
In updating our definitions of family for a new age, we’ve traded security for freedom and swapped the group for a loose network of kin.
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060 |
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Distracted:
How and when we choose to move in and out of the reach of others shapes our relationships.
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062 |
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Distracted:
The physical and virtual worlds are always with us, singing a siren song of connection, distraction, and options.
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063 |
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Distracted:
In updating our definitions of family for a new age, we’ve traded security for freedom and swapped the group for a loose network of kin.
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065 |
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Distracted:
If the virtual gives us a limitless array of alternative spaces to inhabit, then multitasking seems to hand us a new way to reap time.
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073 |
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Distracted:
We weren’t built… to tune out life. Our survival lies in the tricky push and pull between focusing and thus drawing meaning from the world, and staying alert to changes in our environment. This is the real tug of war.
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078 |
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Distracted:
…even for those of us with healthy brains, focus itself creates a kind of blindness. When we shine our attentional spotlight on an object, the rest of the scene doesn’t go blank, but its suppression is truly dramatic.
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078 |
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Distracted:
As much as we try to focus on pursuing our goals, at heart we are biased to remain alert to shifts – especially abrupt ones – in our environment.
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079 |
