All these gadgets constantly telling me things is now driving me nuts! They have little notifications boxes ‘cos someone wrote something on a wall, tagged me, mailed me, text me, phoned me, left a message, poked my mum etc…
Imagine that instead of the little boxes that need your eyes, fingers and mind didn’t require “more than your attention”. But instead they were much more like your senses, your ears, eyes or taste. They were “integrated attention”.
If these messages were more fed straight through to your sub-conscious. They wouldn’t wear us out. They’d be part of your body & mind. And then, my brain could deal with them on another level, a natural level. Slightly cyborg, but more natural.
So if they were important I could concentrate on them. If they were annoying or a pain, like a bad smell, I could ignore them easier.
Cyborg me up like the sixth sense, I want my concentration back!
[image from http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/07/iphone3gsrobochan.jpg]
This post is tagged attention economy, brain, integrated attention, iphone, natural, notifications