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How the Internet Is Designed to Distract Us
The internet is designed to distract us from our real work, says David Perry. The web's structure mimics the way that human memory is theorized to be organized in terms of a semantic network. We may have the illusion that we're doing more and that our human capacity is expanded when we shifted our attention or multitask, but we're actually doing less.
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