
Our capacity to focus while on it both widens and narrows, whether it is spending an entire evening on Netflix, or skirting across dozens of different webpages in a single hour. Time passes by differently across the internet. Our sessions may span from minutes to mere seconds, but they pile up to hours per day.



While our time in the “real world” is spent in hourly chunks-an hour at lunch, eight hours at work, an evening out with friends-we enter and exit the internet in many short bursts. We spend time differently in that realm, often more frenetically.
