The Digital Human: Unfocus

In a productivity-driven society, it might just be that people are placing too much emphasis on paying attention and failing to recognise the benefits of more unstructured thought processes. After all, focus comes at a cost and with numerous demands on people's attention, it's all too easy to experience burnout. Aleks Krotoski explores some of the different modes of attention that individuals can switch between and asks whether, perhaps, they should be awarding their `unfocus" equal status to their focus