There were no spaces between words, in our early writing on slates, papyrus, even on early handwritten books, says Nicholas Carr. Spaces made reading enjoyable.
The web, with its links, has regressed reading into a cognitively intensive act, the way it was when there were no spaces between words.
We adapt to this challenge, by skimming the page, by quickly thin slicing, what is interesting/important in the page.
Because of the insane amount of information, there is a high chance that, we might be caught by the inattention blindness, quite often, like it is explained in the interesting video.