This argument has attracted a lot of attention, via the success of the book Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who both hail from MIT's Center for Digital Business.

来自麻省理工学院的数字商业中心埃里克·布林约夫松和安德鲁·麦卡菲合著的《与机器的较量》一书获得了成功，这让这个观点得到了极大的关注。

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Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, wrote, "The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention."

《浅薄：互联网如何毒化了我们的大脑》一书的作者尼古拉斯·卡尔写道：“网络被设计成一个中断系统，一台用来分散注意力的机器。”

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Today's multimedia machine makes the computer screen into a demanding focus of attention rather than allowing it to fade into the background.

今天的多媒体机器使得计算机屏幕需要成为注意力的聚焦点，而不是让它消失在背景中。

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While they were in the brain-scanning machine, they were asked to do tasks that required concentration and attention.

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On the movie Web site Flixster Hot Tub Time Machine is getting more attention than How to Train Your Dragon.

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Rest your palms on the machine, however, the machine knows not to pay attention to the palms.

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Unlike the Roadster, even the LEDs that surround the charge port go dormant when you walk away, helping to keep this machine from drawing too much attention -- though if you want to be subtle, we might recommend something other than the eye-catching red featured here.

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