Summer Picks: Where Did Our Attention Spans Go, And Can We Get Them Back? – Podcast

In 2024, nan Oxford English Dictionary announced its connection of nan twelvemonth was ‘brain rot’. The word relates to nan supposedly antagonistic effects of consuming societal media content, but it struck a chord much wide pinch galore who consciousness they don’t person nan intelligence capacity they erstwhile had.

Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics astatine nan University of California, Irvine, has been studying our waning attraction spans for 20 years. In this section from January 2025, she tells Madeleine Finlay why she believes our powers of attraction are not beyond rescue, and reveals her apical tips for uncovering focus