Technology is driving us to distraction: what's the true cost?

How often are you diverted from a task by the seductive lure of your mobile phone? Swiping through instagram for a few moments every now and then may not feel like a waste of time, but if you knew how many hours that added up to, would you still do it? James Williams, writing in The Guardian, draws our attention to how technology distracts us from working towards our goals, and argues that the liberation of human attention may be the defining moral and political struggle of our time.