Psychologist

On 8 June, according to MIT Technology Review, Gloria Mark, a psychologist at the University of California, Owen, discussed the impact of digital technology and AI on attention in an interview with SXSW London. She noted that people have largely "lost control of their attention". Mark's long-term experiments show that in 2003 users were able to focus on an average of about 2 and a half minutes before switching to other tasks; in 2012 they dropped to about 75 seconds; from 2014 to 2020..