anxiety disorders have increased twentyfold in the past thirty years. One in five people suffered from an anxiety disorder in the last year, and 28.8 percent will suffer from one at some point in their life.19 More seriously, half of all young people, between eighteen and thirty-two, suffered from an anxiety disorder during the past year. How much of this can be attributed to technology use, and how might that anxiety influence our propensity of interrupting our attentional focus?
