How technology is reshaping our minds
Competing demands on our attention are undermining our ability to focus.
https://www.ft.com/content/b56fcaba-b36d-44f1-affa-24a049a66638
FT’s Tej Parikh notes:
Technology is designed to create efficiency. It allows us to search, retrieve and analyze data faster, freeing us for higher thinking.
But humans have an inbuilt evolutionary tendency to conserve cognitive energy and seek out dopamine hits. Market economies optimize for this. As mental friction is engineered away, the tools we need for deeper cognition risk atrophying. For example, sustained concentration helps strengthen attention, tackling long texts deepens comprehension and forming arguments without prompts builds originality.
https://www.ft.com/content/b56fcaba-b36d-44f1-affa-24a049a66638
FT’s Tej Parikh notes:
Technology is designed to create efficiency. It allows us to search, retrieve and analyze data faster, freeing us for higher thinking.
But humans have an inbuilt evolutionary tendency to conserve cognitive energy and seek out dopamine hits. Market economies optimize for this. As mental friction is engineered away, the tools we need for deeper cognition risk atrophying. For example, sustained concentration helps strengthen attention, tackling long texts deepens comprehension and forming arguments without prompts builds originality.
How the smartphone took over the minds of an entire generation
https://www.afr.com/technology/how-the-smartphone-took-over-the-minds-of-an-entire-generation-20260220-p5o453
The tech revolution that started in 2000 has fundamentally disrupted our social cohesion and cultural foundations, and it’s only getting worse.
https://www.afr.com/technology/how-the-smartphone-took-over-the-minds-of-an-entire-generation-20260220-p5o453
The tech revolution that started in 2000 has fundamentally disrupted our social cohesion and cultural foundations, and it’s only getting worse.