前谷歌CEO埃里克·施密特近日在“Moonshots”播客节目中指出，当前科技行业旨在“货币化你的注意力”，这使得深度思考和放松变得愈发困难。他观察到，与他一同工作的年轻研究人员为了进行深度研究，会选择关闭手机。施密特承认，科技公司，包括他曾领导的谷歌，在推动注意力经济方面扮演了角色，通过广告、娱乐和订阅服务占据用户的清醒时间，这与人类传统上需要长时间、深入思考的模式相悖。研究表明，科技已导致人们的注意力持续时间缩短。尽管冥想应用制造商对此提出异议，认为并非所有屏幕时间都一样，且数字健康应是向前看，但施密特的核心观点是，要实现真正放松和深度思考，最有效的方法是暂时放下手机。

📱 科技行业以“货币化注意力”为目标，导致用户难以集中精力进行深度思考和放松。施密特指出，科技公司通过广告、娱乐和订阅服务等方式，不断吸引用户注意力，这与人类传统上需要长时间深入研究的模式背道而驰。

💡 深度思考需要专注，而手机的频繁通知是专注的最大障碍。施密特观察到，年轻研究人员为了进行深度研究，最有效的方法是关闭手机，因为持续的手机干扰会阻碍深入的思考过程。

⏳ 注意力持续时间因科技影响而缩短，平均电脑屏幕注意力仅47秒。研究表明，与二十年前的2.5分钟相比，现代人的注意力持续时间显著下降，这与科技产品不断分散注意力的设计有关。

🧘‍♀️ 真正的放松和深度思考，应回归传统方式，即暂时放下手机。施密特认为，许多所谓的“数字放松”应用实际上并不能带来真正的放松，最有效的放松方式是关闭手机，回归人类数万年来传统的放松模式。

Eric Schmidt has some advice to young workers hoping to focus at work or find a quiet moment to relax and recharge.On the Moonshots podcast, Schmidt said that researchers "can't think deeply" with their phone buzzing.Schmidt said that the tech industry's goal is to "monetize your attention," which makes concentrating and relaxation harder.

Eric Schmidt knows that focusing can feel impossible when notifications keep popping up.

The former CEO of Google helped usher in a new age of the internet, which brought with it attention-seeking features like advertising and notifications. Today, Schmidt sees that deep focus is impossible when distracted by technology.

"I've been work I work with a lot of 20-somethings in research and one of the questions I had is, how do they do research in the presence of all of these stimulations?" he said on the Moonshots podcast.

"I can answer the question definitively," Schmidt said. "They turn off their phone."

"You can't think deeply as a researcher with this thing buzzing," he added.

For ten years, Schmidt served as CEO of a company that not only built the world's most popular search engine but also shipped Android, which, like any operating system today, dispatches notifications. He acknowledged his role in the industry, saying that tech has long pushed to "monetize your attention."

"We've essentially tried to monetize all of your waking hours with something, some form of ads, some form of entertainment, some form of subscription that is completely antithetical to the way humans traditionally work with respect to long thoughtful examination of principles," Schmidt said.

Research suggests that our attention spans are declining — partially due to tech. According to attention researcher psychologist Gloria Mark, the average attention span on a computer screen is just 47 seconds. Two decades ago, it was 2.5 minutes.

Schmidt also said that notifications and commoditized attention has challenged relaxation.

"My favorite are these digital apps that make you relax," he said. "The correct thing to do to relax is to turn off your phone, right? And then relax in a traditional way for, you know, 70,000 human years of existence."

Schmidt declined to comment further on the topic when reached by Business Insider.

Meditation app makers pushed back on Schmidt's remarks.

"Not all screen time is created equal," a spokesperson for Calm told BI.

"Telling young people to simply 'turn off their phone' isn't realistic or helpful," said Headspace's chief clinical officer, Jenna Glover. "True digital wellness isn't about going backwards 70,000 years, it's about moving forward with intention."