The Rise of Cognitive Incoherence

We live in a world of continuous partial attention (CPA), info chunks, multi-tasking and shortened time-spans. What are the implications of this on our thinking? In my view this might lead to both positive and negative effects. Positive is more lateral and associative thinking and pattern recognition. Considering the negative results I can imagine it leads to a more incoherent kind of thinking and behavior. While we need systemic, integrated and holistic thinking to solve urgent and complex global issues, we seem to go the other way. I wonder how this will progress.

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[Barry Adams]

Nick Carr wrote an interesting article about this phenomenon a few months ago, and it got picked up by the blogosphere. I blogged about it too and got a few interesting replies (see http://www.adamus.nl/?p=829). I'm not entirely sure myself if our ever shortening attention span is a good thing or not. Ever since the rise of the TV age, when people started complaining about the dilution and mediocrity of modern media, kids have persistently gotten smarter and smarter, so I don't think we can call it a truly negative development.

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