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February 27, 2010, at 9:45 pm — Blogs — / / /

Attention: Please turn off your cell phones

Joyce Chen

In a time when ADHD diagnoses are as frequent as the release of new iPhone apps, it’s hard to determine whether technology is causing shorter attention spans or whether heightened senses are demanding more and more distractions. The chicken-and-egg dilemma is something that is, however, perhaps secondary to the mere fact that it exists.

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