This digital dissonance makes it difficult to do productive work that requires a prolonged and unbroken concentration. We drop whatever we are doing now, to check a social alert, or respond to an urgent email. Many of us suffer from ‘inbox anxiety’, where we can’t help but keep checking inboxes every 30 minutes. Slacks, text, and email alerts constantly break our focus. Our engagement with the digital world makes it difficult for us to concentrate and be focused on our lives.
However, this hyper-connectivity has come at a high expense. We can talk to friends across the globe, and track news in seconds as it breaks. Today, we are living in a digital, borderless, and virtually linked world.
