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“For people doing knowledge work — the most highly paid employees — every time you are interrupted it takes 5–15 minutes to fully recapture your train of thought and get back to being completely immersed in your main task,” says Nielsen.
… stream of data we produce by using the thing constitutes part of the “rent” we pay to the company. By integrating what were once ordinary objects into the internet of things, companies are able to enact a form of micro-enclosure in which they retain ownership over the digital part of a physical thing — and the right to access, control, and shut off the software — even after you purchase it. Whether we are streaming content or licensing software, we are paying for the privilege of slowly c…