Our attention spans are one-third what they were in 2004

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The average human attention span shrank by roughly two-thirds between 2004 and the mid-2010s, with the steepest drop around 2012. That's from UC Irvine researcher Gloria Mark, and it anchors a New York Times op-ed by Cal Newport — Georgetown CS professor and author of Deep Work — arguing that collective cognitive capacity is declining in ways data can now measure.