You’ll have seen the headlines. Smartphones are not altogether great for our attention spans. Having ubiquitous news and social media at our fingertips is only good for inducing Fomo, anxiety, social isolation, and depression. We’re so mentally taxed by it all that even an uninterrupted 25-minute work session can be torture.
But surely one positive side effect of having instant, easy-to-digest entertainment is that we are no longer bored. There is now a YouTube video to watch while waiting for a train, a language-learning app to maintain over lunch, messages to reply to during a boring meeting, even admin that can be done while sitting on the toilet.
