To Shorten... like the Internet

The articles for Rolling Stone used to hit amazingly long articles (7000 words back when there was "no internet" on page 94 of The Shallows). In the paragraphs after, it talks about how with the internet, there was a shortening of articles while adding in oversize headlines, graphics, photos and quotes. The New York Times is one of the papers that decided to shortcut articles so it appeals to the readers quicker and will save them time.
TV shows and movies are also becoming more Web-like. A lot of new shows play short segments that are just as long as YouTube clips. Some movies are given in extra qualities to them so they feel like the Internet (P96 of The Shallows). Because of the internet, we've shortened down our attention span and in return, things are being shortened down to keep up with us.
Will we (humans) learn how to maintain our attention span? From an amazingly long article to these many short brief ones, as time went on and the internet developed, it had an inverse relationship with the length of the article. Not very long from now, with technology growing as fast as it is, there might just be something that is better than the "internet." I'm here to wonder, if we went from long to short attention spans with these developments, where would we go if something was to replace the internet, cutting our attention span even more. Or will we learn?