It sounds terrifying. Baroness Susan Greenfield has proclaimed that “Facebook Home could change our brains”. Cue visions from Stephen King’s horror novel Cell, in which anyone using a phone instantaneously morphs into a ravenous zombie.
For now the streets are free from undead hordes, but that rumbling sound you hear is real. It’s the collective groan of the neuroscience community whenever the Baroness makes headlines. Those of us who study neuroscience and psychology regard Greenfield’s views on modern technology as stemming more from ideology than evidence. With every article or talk, Greenfield deepens her quasi-religious vision of a lost golden age before computers devoured our humanity.
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