Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload
Inbunden bok. The MIT Press. 2024. 331 sidor.
Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nyskick. The human brain hasn't changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of the Screen Age. That's why, according to neurologist Richard Cytowic--who, Oliver Sacks observed, "changed the way we think of the human brain"--our brains are so poorly equipped to resist the incursions of Big Tech: They are programmed for the wildly different needs of a prehistoric world. In Your Stone-Age Brain in the Screen Age, Cytowic explains exactly how this programming works--from the brain's point of view. What he reveals in this book shows why we are easily addicted to screen devices, why young, developing brains are particularly vulnerable, why we need silence, and what we can do to push back.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780262049009
- Titel
- Your Stone Age brain in the screen age - coping with digital distraction and sensory overload
- Författare
- Cytowic, Richard E
- Utgivningsår
- 2024
- Omfång
- 332 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Inbunden
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- The human brain hasn’t changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of the Screen Age. That’s why, according to neurologist Richard Cytowic—who, Oliver Sacks observed, “changed the way we think of the human brain”—our brains are so poorly equipped to resist the incursions of Big Tech: They are programmed for the wildly different needs of a prehistoric world. In Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age, Cytowic explains exactly how this programming works—from the brain’s point of view. What he reveals in this book shows why we are easily addicted to screen devices; why young, developing brains are particularly vulnerable; why we need silence; and what we can do to push back.
