Field Note · 04 / 18
Forty-seven seconds
In 2004, the median focus on a single screen was two and a half minutes. Today it is 47 seconds.
Human attention did not break in twenty years. The environment changed — the screen was redesigned for interruption, and we live on it.
Which is quietly good news: an environmental problem has environmental fixes. Close the unresolved. Work in a smaller room.
The evidence
The Desktop Is a Room13 min