Pop neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield researches digital technology and how it affects the human brain. She has a really fascinating theory about how the internet is ‘infantilising’ our minds. “Humans will crave a more instant world; a literal world that is laden with senses, that is process driven rather than content driven, focused on the experience rather than the meaning; [a world that is] about the thrill of the moment, where there are no consequences because you can just go back and do it again. People will have shorter attention spans and perhaps higher IQs; they will have a shaky sense of identity; they may be more hedonistic and less reflective, and will take more risks. These are not altogether bad characteristics, they are simply different from the behaviour that guides society today.”


Thanks to sarah and Paula for this story.


References:
A report sarah once did
The Future Laboratory

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