Appetite for Distraction: 4. Attention Shortfall?
Matthew Syed asks what it means to be distracted in a media world vying for our attention. In this episode Matthew traces the inexorable rise of shortform video and investigates its success. He asks what the increasing popularity of this type of media might mean for our attention and finds out about the people using…
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