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SYSK Choice: Your Brain On the Internet & Embracing Your Weirdness

Something You Should Know

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The Problem With Technology

I think in general what the internet is doing through the way it delivers information to us is making us shallow or thinkers. There are a few problems, I think. One is that it becomes harder to deal with complexity. And if the technology we use to inform ourselves encourages, discourages rather deep thinking, kind of conceptual thinking then we're going to struggle to solve any problems that come up. But there's also a more philosophical issue. In order to live a full life and certainly a full intellectual life, we have to be able to screen out distractions sometimes. That unlocks the most profound ways of thinking that we're capable of. If we cut ourselves off from that by being distracted and interrupted

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