Your stone age brain in the screen age : coping with digital distraction and sensory overload
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, 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 this book, Cytowic explains exactly how this programming works--from the brain's point of view. What he reveals in this book shows why...