The Forty-Seven Second Span

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Across
  1. 2. The casualty of efficiency and urgency
  2. 6. This creates worth for the rare skill of focus
  3. 9. What a man would watch while sitting on a stone
  4. 10. Type of phone someone might tap while sitting silent
  5. 14. One of the AI tools you've explored previously
  6. 19. Type of summary that is currently king
  7. 21. What we are turning into, according to the poem
  8. 22. Pet that supposedly has more self control
  9. 24. Number of seconds we now last on a screen
  10. 27. Minutes it takes to get back on the mental bus
  11. 28. How we feel after reading a book without checking news
  12. 29. The digital sound that interrupts our flow
  13. 32. The length of time we can focus
  14. 33. First name of the Dr. who timed our focus
  15. 34. The person being interviewed for a job
  16. 35. The type of mind that takes a heavy toll
  17. 36. What we do deep into the night when feeling hazy
  18. 41. A dry test about the price of hay
  19. 42. Professor who warns about switching costs
  20. 43. You might have jumped one of these to save time
  21. 44. The tool used by the Dr. to time our screens
  22. 45. The cheap and fast chemical rush for brains
Down
  1. 1. What we want instead of the whole story, short and sweet
  2. 2. Resist the pull of these to see the world bright
  3. 3. These were slow in the days of old
  4. 4. What we used to read about before emails failed
  5. 5. Author of the heavy brick titled War and Peace
  6. 7. Acronym for Too Long Didn't Read
  7. 8. We plead for these points instead of sentences
  8. 11. Poet who wrote about our mental shrink
  9. 12. The hardest PhD course: Sustained ____ Three
  10. 13. Famous first name from Moby Dick
  11. 15. Digital objects we jump through in anxious loops
  12. 16. The person whose design you finally finished reading
  13. 17. Modern human attention span in seconds
  14. 18. The restless place we all belong to
  15. 20. The platform used for your website design
  16. 23. The provider where you created your website
  17. 25. Future CVs might list reading fifty pages
  18. 26. Seconds a goldfish can stare at food
  19. 30. Platform for a dance version of classic plots
  20. 31. Candidates will be tested by sitting in a wooden ____
  21. 35. The "____ cost" makes productivity run dry
  22. 36. The slow-burn kind that dies a death
  23. 37. The size of the version we want for every feat
  24. 38. These writers wrote plots with twisting legs
  25. 39. We hover on this jagged mental edge
  26. 40. Try to read one without checking what is new
  27. 43. The mood we are in instead of staring
  28. 46. The advanced degree of the future focused on sitting