A century before social-media bans and advice to disable device notifications, the inventor and science-fiction writer Hugo Gernsback proposed a more extreme way to avoid distraction: an isolating ...

A century before social-media bans and advice to disable device notifications, the inventor and science-fiction writer Hugo Gernsback proposed a more extreme way to avoid distraction: an isolating ...

You are likely reading this story on a screen. I have 47 seconds of your focus before you are likely distracted by something else, according to research on the average attention span. Let’s make the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The idea that attention spans can "break" has been spreading like ...

We are regularly bombarded with information about a steep drop in attention spans. Based on its own data in 2015, Microsoft reported that the average attention span had dropped from about 12 seconds ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Maurer covers how personal finance is more personal than finance. I’m not sure there is a modern wisdom saying that better ...

Feel like you can’t focus? Like you’ll never finish a book again? Like the only way to keep your mind and hands busy is to scroll on social media for hours? You’re far from alone. One body of ...

Hayes talks about his own experience of becoming famous enough to be recognized and becoming a little addicted to that attention. He explains how companies have learned to manipulate natural ...

For more than a decade, I have hosted an hour-long cable TV show on MSNBC. When I got my own show, I imagined it as something akin to the experience of first-time car ownership. I could drive wherever ...

HorsegiirL’s swift rise has all happened under the guise of her elaborate horse mask with a crafted backstory to boot, but her cutesy foray into the uncanny inspires strong reactions on either end of ...

The New York-based AI startup Attention, which uses natural language processing to fill out customer-relationship-management programs and generate action items from sales calls, just raised a fresh ...