Academic Corner
Is Information Overload Causing Mental Obesity?
In today's society, it can be hard to find time to digest the information we collect.
Have you lost hours upon hours gobbling up endless tidbits of useless information instantaneously provided at the click of a mouse? If you have, you may be suffering from “Mental Obesity” and need a “Digital Diet,” terms coined by David Ryan Polgar, author of Wisdom in the Age of Twitter. Recently I sat down with David to discuss how this age of information overload is impacting how we think. The bottom line is, all the inane information we take in on a daily basis is making it harder to concentrate, be reflective, and think critically. In other words, our smartphones are making us stupid. The term Mental Obesity comes from his analogy that access to endless information is like overeating. To explain it, David compared the information we …
Susan Schaefer
2:46 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013
I hadn't realized that Si! Forget all that and just call, or does that count as well? more ›