Jonathan Crary

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The eleven seconds nearly slipped past me.

I was in an elevator in Barcelona, between floors at Mobile World Congress, and I was prompting Claude. Not because anything was urgent. Because the elevator was taking eleven seconds and the idea was there and the tool was there and eleven seconds felt like enough to start something. I stepped onto the exhibition floor still locked in the conversation, navigating around people without seeing them, a body moving through physical space while attention lived entirely inside a screen.

I had read the Berkeley study on task seepage. I had written about it in *You On AI*. I had described the phenomenon to audiences as though it were something that happened to other people.

Then Crary's framework landed, and