What is a goldfish's attention span?
8 seconds.
And that of a millennial, this individual
“born
(in the 1980s and 1990s, editor’s note)
with a permanent connection and with a touch screen”
?
10 minutes?
50 seconds?
No: 9 seconds.
This is what Google's supercomputers have managed to estimate.
An edifying figure that Bruno Patino chose to open his excellent essay
La Civilization du Poisson Rouge,
followed by
Tempête dans le bocal (Grasset)
.
Like them, the zennials (born between 1998 and 2003), but also all those who have succumbed to overconnection,
“we have become goldfish, locked in the jar of our screens, subject to the merry-go-round of our alerts and our messages snapshots»
.
Caught between two waters of emails and stories, do the younger generations still read “real” books?
First, young people like to read.
In its latest study on the practices of young people and reading, published at the beginning of the year, the National Book Center (CNL) reveals that 7-25 year olds…
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