These are not fragmentary, attention-disturbing activities, as Nicholas Carr describes (see Life in the Shallows); in fact, they require sustained concentration and some serious thinking.
I consider myself a logical person, and in hopes of casting some logic on the mystery of deja vu, I set out to decode what exactly it is and why it affects us.
As a society, we might want to rethink the time and money spent on education, so that these resources can benefit a greater percentage of the population.
Rather, they are trying to focus attention on cognitive faculties that go beyond intelligence - what they describe as the essential tools of rational thinking.
But by encouraging people to step back and reconsider old problems or entrenched practices, the designer can begin to re-frame the challenge at hand-which can then steer thinking in new directions.