We have been lamenting our loss of focus and blaming our short attention spans on technology for ages. But are our attention spans actually dwindling - or is it just that there are just so many things clamouring for our attention all the time?

Thomas Hills, professor of psychology and director of the Behavioral and Data Science master's program at the University of Warwick in England, provides a historical overview of attention through the lens of tech and innovation.

TikTok has been a key part of Toronto artist Hima Batavia's pandemic experience. It started with dance moves and moved towards engagement with social justice issues and into a variety of communities she never would have learned about if not for TikTok.

Sarah Sharma, associate professor of media theory at ICCIT/Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and the director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, talks about the tech and media "solutions" to our current relationship with time, and what that all says about our position of power in society.