“The proportion of Americans who read books for pleasure is now at its lowest level ever recorded. The American Time Use Survey--which studies a representative sample of 26,000 Americans--found that between 2004 and 2017, the proportion of men reading for pleasure had fallen by 40 percent, while for women, it was down by 29 percent. The opinion-poll company Gallup found that the proportion of Americans who never read a book in any given year tripled between 1978 and 2014. Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year. This has escalated to the point that by 2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.” ReadingAttentionFocus Book:Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again Source: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
“The internet arrived for most of us in the late 1990s, into a society where the middle class was starting to crumble and where financial insecurity was rising, and we were sleeping an hour less than people did in 1945. It would always have been hard to resist the sophisticated human-hacking of surveillance capitalism, but it appeared we were already getting weaker, and we were easier to hack than we would have been otherwise.” FocusInternetSurveillance Capitalism Book:Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again Source: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
