Did the iPhone kill global productivity?

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Cross-posted from FTAlpahville:

Dan Nixon from the BoE’s content and strategy division asks an important question this week regarding the connection between digital distraction and flailing productivity.

As he points out on the Bank’s Bank Underground blog, there’s a chance digital systems, rather than adding efficiency in weird and mysterious algorithmic ways, could be causing something of an attention crisis in modern society.

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