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I have a running thesis that I've been building out in my head for a while, and continue to see more data to support it. Basically - our technology has signific

I have a running thesis that I've been building out in my head for a while, and continue to see more data to support it. Basically - our technology has significantly outgrown our biological and evolutionary roots. So much of the modern world is unnatural from an evolutionary perspective. One post can reach millions of people, a far cry from how our brain evolved to process social connections. We just don't have the tools to process the modern media and social media landscape. I can't imagine what it's doing to the developing brain. I see so much of society similar to a deer freezing in headlights. Cars have been around for a while, but only blink of an eye in an evolutionary timescale. Deer haven't been able to catch up. In some ways, I fear our society is quite the same for us.

flas9sd 4y ago
the deer in headlights, the blink of an eye are interesting representations. You can make that argument of what is deemed unnatural on a lot since industrialization took root (and you did, as in cars). That genie is out of the bottle with world populations raising in lock-step to technology. Humans continue to live - in mega cities, with mass transportation, mass communication, world wars for more than 100 years. I don't know to what degree we biologically adapt, but most certainly we do adapt. Smartphones are yet another shock to populations that I'm sure we'll absorb. The web-accessed FT article on youth mental health, this conversation, this message board of worldwide concurrency are all adaptions.