Recently, I noticed an advertisement on my Facebook feed that referred to a Microsoft study suggesting that the average attention span of humans has dropped since the start of the century. Apparently, the average human attention span in 2000 was 12 seconds, but by 2013 it was only 8 seconds. The point of that ad was that we humans have one second shorter attention span than goldfish. No way! While that fairly amusing tidbit has been debunked, the fact remains that digital lifestyle and the moder