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Re: Will the internet eat your brain?

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On 2014-08-28 18:49, Rich wrote:
> http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21614088-neuroscientist-warns-will-internet-eat-your-brain
> 
>    A PICTURE doing the rounds on social media a few months ago showed two
>    Hong Kong lovers hugging on a train. Resting their heads on each other's
>    shoulders gave the girl and her boyfriend an ideal vantage point to gaze
>    lovingly at the smartphone that each was fiddling with behind the
>    other's back.

That sounds remarkably like Banksy's street art:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-28950398

>    It was meant to be funny. But for Susan Greenfield, a British
>    neuroscientist, this is no joke. For several years Lady Greenfield has
>    been warning of what she sees as the dangers of computers and the
>    internet, as they move out of the office and into people's living rooms,
>    pockets and personal lives. She has written newspaper articles and given
>    lectures about the dangers of the digital world. She frets, worrying
>    that smartphones and social networks are sucking users into an
>    unsatisfying digital facsimile of reality, frying their memories,
>    atrophying their social skills and generally rotting their brains.

Isn't this at least partly because real lives have become more
disconnected, with people living in (at best, if they are lucky) minimal
families, when most of human evolution took place in extended kinship
groups of mutually-dependent individuals? Are we using social media to
re-establish the hunter gatherer connections which prevailing political
and economic ideas have made more distant than ever?

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Will the internet eat your brain? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-28 17:49 +0000
  Re: Will the internet eat your brain? Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-08-28 19:26 +0100
    Re: Will the internet eat your brain? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-28 20:56 +0000

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