Leon Ferrari
Leon Ferrari is a data reporter specializing in science and health coverage. With bylines in major outlets such as O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo, DW Brasil, and the Washington Blade, he has won or been a finalist for ten national and international journalism awards. In 2025, he was selected as an ICFJ (International Center for Journalists) fellow and received the EurekAlert! Travel Award, a distinction granted by the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) science news platform to outstanding science reporters.
The Attention Economy and Collective Mental Fatigue
We live in an environment shaped by platforms, algorithms, and digital stimuli that compete for attention continuously and systematically. At the same time that mental exhaustion grows, technology-based solutions emerge promising focus, balance, productivity, and well-being. Do these tools represent a new path of care for the mind or are they merely adaptive responses to a system that produces its own illness?