Too much dopamine in the information age; all you have to do is pick up your cellphone to get your next hit. The repercussions of this are that you expect to be entertained or interested in every activity you are involved in. So the real question is… is it an attention problem, or is it a dopamine problem?? Because I can still read that book or watch that lecture. It's just that every book has to be a page-turner, and every lecture has to be a banger. Because if it's not, then I just simply scrap that book or scrap that lecture and find someone who said it better, who explained it better, extracted value better, or made the exact same subject interesting.
This is exactly the type of solutions-based thinking that we need! This technology is not inevitable. I am an attorney and have recently come across Professor Ryan Calo's methodology when it comes to law and technology. It is a similar approach in terms of outlining steps for assessment and forward discussions with the focus not being the newest tech, but what value does it bring to our society and do we even want it. Here is a link to an interview transcript from Tech Policy Press. It just makes so much sense! https://www.techpolicy.press/ryan-calo-wants-to-change-the-relationship-between-law-and-technology/
Loved this bit: technology is rarely evaluated for how it might reshape people’s attention, cognition, emotional well-being, or relationships over months and years.
And I think is about time it starts being evaluated.
Thank you, Anita! We do need change.
Too much dopamine in the information age; all you have to do is pick up your cellphone to get your next hit. The repercussions of this are that you expect to be entertained or interested in every activity you are involved in. So the real question is… is it an attention problem, or is it a dopamine problem?? Because I can still read that book or watch that lecture. It's just that every book has to be a page-turner, and every lecture has to be a banger. Because if it's not, then I just simply scrap that book or scrap that lecture and find someone who said it better, who explained it better, extracted value better, or made the exact same subject interesting.
This is exactly the type of solutions-based thinking that we need! This technology is not inevitable. I am an attorney and have recently come across Professor Ryan Calo's methodology when it comes to law and technology. It is a similar approach in terms of outlining steps for assessment and forward discussions with the focus not being the newest tech, but what value does it bring to our society and do we even want it. Here is a link to an interview transcript from Tech Policy Press. It just makes so much sense! https://www.techpolicy.press/ryan-calo-wants-to-change-the-relationship-between-law-and-technology/
Loved this bit: technology is rarely evaluated for how it might reshape people’s attention, cognition, emotional well-being, or relationships over months and years.
And I think is about time it starts being evaluated.