Disattention

This comment by hgomersall on Hacker News explaining how smartphones steal your—for a lack of better word—disattention.

I’ve recently realised that the biggest problem with smartphones is not that they steal your attention (which is bad enough), but that they steal your disattention

I don’t know of a better word for it than disattention. Perhaps downtime? But it’s not so structured. It’s just those moments where you’d previously let your mind wander. Gone forever.



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