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The ages of distraction: everybody has been busy and distracted since at least 1710

16 mins | May 28, 2017
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Busy, distracted, inattentive? Everybody has been since at least 1710 and Frank Furedi writing in Aeon Magazine, has the philosophers to prove it.

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