Psychologist Alison Gopnik explores new discoveries in the science of human nature. Read previous columnsImagine a technology that uses a powerful optical interface, emitting signals that make your brain produce vivid images.
Users are unable to turn off those signals once they’re in range, and some brain areas become entirely dedicated to the device. Children, especially, can become so absorbed that they are oblivious to everything else around them, and adults can be so addicted that they even keep a device in the bathroom! Good idea or bad?
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Speak for yourself, Conservative Wall Street Journal. We aren’t all old fogies! I will be 79 shortly and I subscribe to WIRED, FAST COMPANY, and follow developments that The Media Lab is working on at M.I.T. and more…
Bluetooth, you don’t see many articles about how easy it is to compromise.
Oh come on, CDs didn’t come out until I was in college and I trust them. What’s your point.
I don't trust the Wall Street Journal's twitter page! LOL MAGA Fakenews
This explains why I trust guitars.