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Main idea: "In our technological economy, human attention is the emerging scarce resource."
As she does, Simmons uses a broad argument to entice her readers' minds into other lines of thought. Embedded in the above argument is that no matter how much we minimize the "virtual" in virtual reality, it will always play second to actual human contact, that precise sensory combination unmatchable by engineered reality.
It's the reason I have visited Second Life exactly once, thought "Cool," and never returned.
Simmons goes on to state: "In today's world almost anyone you want to influence is operating under a deficit of human attention."
Forgive me for getting a little close to the fire here, but I have in recent years found it rather difficult to engage anyone in hard, held eye contact, and to get it back in kind. As an experiment this week we should try to add hard eye contact to a conversation, even a brief one in hall, say, and report the results in class.
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posted by Chad @ 8:18 PM
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I'm so bad about eye contact. I can maintain it probably only about 50% of the time. I get distracted too easily. It's probably all the cartoons I watched as a kid; fried my attention span.
...I think it is not only about attention span and distraction. Your eyes tell A LOT and that's why people don't engage in eye contact - especially if it is hard held! Eye contact can be provoking and people may think you are obtrusive.
Some men even alleged that I send "mixed signals"....that's at least how I feel....
People really don't like eye contact. That is true. Keep in mind, though, that some cultures, even ones in the US, don't take so kindly to held eye contact. It could be taken as a sign of aggression.
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