Still crunched for time. Apologies to all. I managed to listen to another interview today that is, again, worth sharing.About an hour in length covering Mr Sardamov's new book Mental Penguins – The Neverending Education Crisis and the False Promise of the Information Age.With thanks to Legalise freedom for making this interview freely available!
Ivelin Sardamov – Amused to Death: The False Promise of the Information Age
Sardamov draws on key findings in neuroscience to explain decreasing attention spans, a crisis of curiosity, and waning interest in and knowledge of complex social issues in the United States and around the world. Attributing this trend primarily to the effects of information overload, ubiquitous screens, and constant access to the Internet, he argues that chronic over-stimulation generated by the current socio-technological environment fosters addictive tendencies in today’s young people, many of whom will graduate from profit-driven universities both mired in debt and unprepared for life in the outside world. This worrying and worsening situation also breeds apathy, disengagement, and social dysfunction, and almost certainly contributes to the ongoing decline in written and spoken language, and even basic cognition. All this among an increasingly-narcissistic and entitled populace weaned on celebrity culture, safe spaces, and political correctness. As with many mostly technological problems, the solution is too often seen as the application of yet more technology. If we wish to stop this downturn, however, and ultimately change course, we must be prepared to face some very uncomfortable truths
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Related to these previous posts:
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No Good Evidence that Children Benefit from Screen Time
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iMinds: Total Technology and Human Evolution- Mari Swingle
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Glow Kids: Screen Addiction, Human Interactive Dysfunction and Mass Social Experimentation