Gloria Borger: I'm just wondering if at some point people are just going to rebel and go offline, because what other option would there be? She says that's a big and dangerous trend that sounds like sci-fi, but we actually find ourselves in that reality right now. Borger: Let's instead build bigger and bigger supercomputers to predict the other side of it, which is no matter how rich and complex and unique you are.
Every 40 seconds, our attention breaks. It takes an act of extreme self-awareness to even notice. That’s why Gloria Mark, a professor in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine, started measuring the attention spans of office workers with scientific precision. What she has discovered is not simply an explosion of disruptive communications, but a pandemic of stress that has followed workers from their offices to their homes. She shares the latest findings from the “science of interruptions,” and how we can stop forfeiting our attention to the next notification, and the next one, ad nauseam.