Why Can’t We Pay Attention Anymore?

It's a summary of 2 books: The Loop and Stolen Focus

THE LOOP: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back By Jacob Ward

"In “The Loop,” Ward, an NBC technology correspondent, argues that artificial intelligence in particular is not only predicting our actions but increasingly causing our actions, narrowing our scope of options and imprisoning us in an automated existence."

STOLEN FOCUS Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again By Johann Hari

"Hari breaks down the many causes of our lack of attention into two categories: too much and too little. Too much information, stress, surveillance and manipulation, and ADHD diagnoses. Not enough sleep, novel reading, navel gazing and nutritious food."