Part of the Indie Author Series
I read a fascinating and chilling article the other day about the way the so-called “attention economy” is changing society and fracturing our attention spans—literally rewiring our brain through the phenomenon of neuroplasticity. This has become so acute that some of the very tech leaders who started this ball rolling have begun to disconnect, adopting smart phone-free periods for themselves and their families and putting up firebreaks between themselves and the net in order to reclaim their lives and their fragmented mental space.
