Friday May 22 2015  Rebecca Northfield, assistant features editor Human attention span lags behind that of goldfish Are you reading this, humans? Are you? Hello? Are you paying attention to me? I guessed not. If only the goldfish could read… Our attention span has decreased by four seconds in the last 15 years to only eight seconds, meaning a goldfish beats us by managing nine seconds. We have three types of human attention which are sustained, selective and alternating. And we are failing at all of them. This is because of modern technology. By adapting to it, our focus is … Continue reading E&T news weekly #51 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week