In the future, when everyone is wearing sophisticated smart glasses, children will grow up learning how to have face to face conversations while also looking things up, checking social media, and having little text chats on the side. I wonder what this will mean for the future of attention.
Will people in general start to become distracted, as multitasking intrudes upon even the simplest conversation? Or will those children grow up to develop an entirely new skill set?
Those kids might grow up to develop the ability to be fully present in more than one conversation at a time, something that I don’t think I’ve really seen people do in today’s world. On the other hand, society might just start falling apart, as everybody finds themselves trying to engage in too many conversations at once.
I wonder which way it will go.