Nothing about screen-based attention testing is natural or inevitable

Evidence

In the greensward of Amazonian jungle south of Roraima, not much. To the world we have made over the last century in the United States and elsewhere—a world in which our bodies and senses have been remade as appurtenant to screens and keyboards—such a test seems to go to the heart of our humanity. But there is nothing natural or inevitable about that. That is culture. And history. And the science we have reflects both. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 159

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The claim that ‘our bodies and senses have been remade as appurtenant to screens’ pairs with the technology-of-communication genealogy in Innis and with the soundscape books on how perceptual norms are historically built.