Check out the Invisible Gorilla selective awareness test from Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris:
This three-minute animated video-based on the work of author Nicolas Carr gives a humourous overview of how the Internet is shaping our brains:
https://www.diygenius.com/the-internet-is-changing-our-brains
Design thinker Tristan Harris discusses new ideas for technology that create more meaningful interactions in this TED talk ‘How better tech could protect us from distraction’. He asks us to think about how often technology interrupts us from what we really mean to be doing and how instead of helping us spend our time well, it often feels like our tech is stealing it away from us.
Dr. J-P. Lachaux works in Lyon Neuroscience Research Center and Labex CORTEX. He has been working for more than 20 years at solving the mysteries of the brain, focusing mainly on the dynamic interactions between distributed neural processes and complex cognitive tasks, especially visual cognition, attention, reading, and memory. In this TEDx talk ‘Attention, distraction and the war in our brain’, Dr. Lachaux emphasizes the importance of attention in one’s day-to-day existence and explains that learning how to reach the state of full attention will save half of the time in an individual’s life.