What the death of reading is doing to our brains
A quiet crisis is transforming human civilization: the rapid death of reading and the rise of a "post-literate" society. With the average attention span shrinking
A quiet crisis is transforming human civilization: the rapid death of reading and the rise of a "post-literate" society. With the average attention span shrinking to mere seconds, we talk to writer Rose Horowitch ("The End of Reading Is Here") and psychiatrist Anders Hansen to dissect how technology uses evolutionary vulnerabilities to steal our attention.
Rose Horowitch - The End of Reading Is Here Anders Hansen - The Attention Fi Chapters 00:00 The end of reading is here 02:45 A new dark age? 04:14 What is happening in our brains?
07:00 What is the trade-off? 08:50 The role of social-media 11:10 How the end of reading affects politics 12:40 Where are heading next? 13:40 Will younger
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