According to Johns Hopkins professor P.M. Forni, our current “age of distraction” is making us more shallow, stupid, and unhappy. And as the founder of the university’s Civility Initiative, Forni should know. Forni’s fear is that digital distraction makes us less likely to spend time simply thinking; instead, we obsessively check for new emails/tweets/Facebook likes/Instagram […]
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