Why Google News Is Turning Us All Into Anxious Goldfish With Attention Spans of a Gnat
Why Google News Is Turning Us All Into Anxious Goldfish With Attention Spans of a Gnat Right, let’s have it out, shall we? I’m sitting here scrolling through Google News like some sort of digital archaeologist, digging through layers of catastrophe, celebrity gossip, and what appears to be seventeen different articles about a badger that got stuck in a Tesco, and I’ve had a proper realization: we’ve broken something fundamental about how humans are supposed to consume information, and nobody’s even pretending to fix it anymore. ...