Short attention spans aren’t just a side-effect of television. Television is designed to shorten attention spans.

I got this idea after finishing John Taylor Gatto‘s excellent book Dumbing Us Down. Gatto writes mostly about the poor state of schooling, but also puts a good deal of blame on TV.

I was also happy to see that Doc quoted Gatto’s book in a recent Suitwatch column in Linux Journal.

If you haven’t read the book yet, do it.