After first hearing this segment I wasn’t too surprised, but it was definitely eye opening to hear some of the actual facts and reasoning about our connection to technology today. When Richtel talked about how we are distracted by our phones even if we aren’t on them, and made the comparison of getting a notification to being tapped on the shoulder I had a little bit of an ah-ha moment. I am definitely guilty of this. Whether it’s driving, at work, or in class, if I have my phone somewhere I can hear or feel it I don’t hesitate to check and see what it was. Even if I am certain it’s unimportant and I shouldn’t be checking my phone at that time, it is difficult to resist knowing the answer is right there. I also found it very interesting that because most of the time we know it is nothing urgent, it actually makes us more drawn to check our phones, because of the chance that is something important. This made sense when he described the phenomena through explaining the experiment with rats, and how they checked the water more frequently in hopes that it would be there. This story is a narrative beginning to show our addictive habits when it comes to technology. For example, with the the pole during the podcast I believe it was 42% admitted that even after having a close call with technology and driving, they still continued to check their phones while on the road. The fact that we are beginning to see these negatives ramifications without changing many of our practices goes to show to obsession we have with technology.  I think there were some really important takeaways from this podcast as a whole, but the reasoning and facts about attention definitely did grab my attention.