Write an essay to answer the following question using your lecture notes, the reading materials you have been given and your own ideas.
Consider the extent to which using new technology has a harmful effect on human attention.
LIST OF NAMES AND REFERENCES USED IN LECTURE Bioinitiative Report (2012) https://bioinitiative.org
Carr, Nicholas (2011) The Shallows : What the Internet is Doing to
Our Brains London : Atlantic Books.
Eyal, Nir (2014) Hooked : How to Build Habit-Forming Products
New York : Penguin. ( The technologies we use have turned into compulsions, if not fully-fledged addiction. Its the impulse to check a message notification. Its the pull to visit You tube, Facebook or Twitter for just a few minutes, only to find yourself still tapping and scrolling an hour later.)
Fideler, David (2014) Restoring the Soul of the World Rochester, Vermont : Inner Traditions.
(We have the greatest technological methods of any civilisation but we have forgotten what it means to be alive in the world.)
Gausby, Alyson (2015) Attention Spans Microsoft Canada www. infofuegina.com
Nadella, Satya (2014) Bold Ambition and Our Core e-mail sent to Microsoft employees, widely quoted.
(The true scarce commodity is increasingly human attention.) Postman, Neil (1985) Amusing Ourselves to Death New York : Viking. Skinner, B.F. (1904-1990)
Williams, James (2017) Stand Out of Our Light : Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy Cambridge : Cambridge University press.
(The liberation of human attention may be the defining moral and political struggle of our time.)
Wall, Jeff (1946-)
Wilson, Edward O. (1998) Consilience : the Unity of Knowledge New
York : Vintage. (We are drowning in information but starving in wisdom.)
Wu, Tim (2016) The Attention Merchants : The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads New York : Penguin Random House.
