Regarding attention spans, from "Avoid News. Towards a Healthy News Diet" By Rolf Dobelli [0] (top-notch article, btw): "In a 2001 study [1] two scholars in

Regarding attention spans, from "Avoid News. Towards a Healthy News Diet" By Rolf Dobelli [0] (top-notch article, btw): "In a 2001 study [1] two scholars in Canada showed that comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increase. Why? Because whenever a link appears, your brain has to at least make the choice not to click, which in itself is distracting." This had me thinking if a dead simple button at the end of an article "Enable links" would have a positive effect on link heavy articles (Wikipedia type) or not. Something like a conscious action of "okay, now I'm ready to explore this further". Or, better yet, a browser add-on that will detect just the content of an article and disable its links by default. Obviously, with an enable button close by. --- [0] https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf [1] Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains, Wired, May 2010