In this May 2024 episode of the Ezra Klein Show, science historian and author D. Graham Burnett explains how our attention spans are being diminished in the 21st century, and what we can do to restore them.

For advertisers and tech companies, our collective capacity to pay attention is the most valuable resource out there.

As we grow more acutely aware of how much our attention is worth, we seem to have less and less control of it.

Ezra Klein is a journalist, author, and co-founder of Vox Media.

As an opinion columnist and podcast host for the New York Times, Klein addresses some of the world's most pressing matters, from the economy and climate change to the rising polarization of society.

In this May 2024 episode of The Ezra Klein Show, Klein talks to science historian, author, and Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett about how our attention is being commodified and depleted in the modern world.