Chances are that you are already familiar with the ubiquitous notion that human attention spans are shrinking. According to a recent study in Nature Communications, our collective attention span is decreasing across a range of different types of input, including social media, books, web searches, movies, and more. The study, conducted by a team of European scientists from Technische Universität Berlin, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, University College Cork, and DTU, concluded that the human capacity for attention is finite – there are hard limits on how much we can take in at once.