Tuning in to a digital life
What did you trade the minutes of your life for? Hopefully it was happiness. MARK LACAS
LET’S GO OLD-SCHOOL DIGITAL DISTRACTION for a minute – as you switch between radio stations trying to find something you want to listen to…
‘For one weekend only in our half-price sale…’ ‘And with the latest headlines…’ ‘A bright start, with showers later and highs of 13 degrees…’
Your brain immediately starts working hard processing the information.
Fast-forward to today, and you’re doing this kind of ‘listening’ across digital platforms on a near constant basis: ‘Tweet tweet’ ‘cc-ing you in…’ ‘Beep beep…’
You switch between frequencies with snippets of information constantly streaming at you. There comes a point when your ...
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