Hyperattention

There is a concept called hyperattention, which refers to a lack of attention, similar to hyperactivity, that describes not individuals but groups. We now live with a huge amount of over-distributed information, react to it too quickly and aggressively, and each person's attention is constantly switching between multiple tasks, sources of information, and work processes. This passion for what's hot online is almost as much a fear of boredom as a fear of being left behind. No matter how insignificant the matter may be, it seems that once only one has not heard of it, one will be isolated and abandoned by the huge community. People in the super attention, every moment to fill themselves, can not tolerate a minute of boredom. I saw a driver in a car accident. While he was waiting for an ambulance, he pulled out his phone, took a short video of his bloody face and watched a few more short videos. Han Byeong-cheol, a German philosopher of Korean descent, said that this structure of attention to all new information at all times does not represent the progress of civilization, nor does it represent the new needs developed by human modern information society, but is a step backward. This attention management technique is a pre-civilization instinct for survival in the wilderness. A single cheetah in the wild, can not concentrate, even if finally caught an antelope, began to eat, also have eyes and ears, while careful not to let hyenas snatch prey, while on the lookout for lion attacks, but also distracted to protect their young. Cheetahs can't even eat enough. Once they've overcome their hunger, they have to stop, because once they're full, their sensory acuity decreases. The ability to process important information intensively is a mental state that humans evolved from long periods of security to create more and more of the fruits of civilization. Not expected, excessive, too strong audiovisual information stimulus almost put our attention directly back to the original form. It's almost a new state of savagery.