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The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Consequences of the Digital Revolution
Technology is always the first thing people bring up and I get that, but I do think it is a significant factor here. My feeling is that one of the consequences of this digital revolution is that it has engineered a lot of anxiety because so much of our life now is mediated by these screens. Human interactions are the most complicated thing we ask our brains to do. Our brains are metabolically really, really expensive. It's not only that hard to get up and go take a run or something but it's also toget up and go interact with somebody. You're using up so many calories that we're built to not do that. That's why people don't like to meet strangers because
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