Mind Change
How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains
We live in a world unimaginable only decades ago: a domain of backlit screens, instant information, and vibrant experiences that can outcompete dreary reality. Our brave new technologies offer incredible opportunities for work and play. But at what price?
Now renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield—known in the United Kingdom for challenging entrenched conventional views—brings together a range of scientific studies, news events, and cultural criticism to create an incisive snapshot of “the global now.” Disputing the assumption that our technologies are harmless tools, Greenfield explores whether incessant exposure to social media sites, search engines, and videogames is capable of rewiring our brains, and whether the minds of people born before and after the advent of the Internet differ.
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February 10, 2015Susan Greenfield is a neuroscientist, broadcaster, and the bestselling author of The Private Life of the Brain, Tomorrow’s People, ID: A Quest for Meaning in the 21st Century, and the novel 2121: A Tale from the Next Century. She is a senior research fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford University, an honorary fellow of the Rocal College of Physicians, and a member of the House of Lords.
