The Neuroscience of Internet Addiction

The video offers a great introduction to the topic! For a comprehensive understanding, consider this book. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze

Looks like Big Think posted the wrong transcript in the comments etc., this is Nicholas Carr, the author of The Shallows.

It's astonishing and shocking that the education system is so ridiculously far behind that you still dont learn any of this in school, even though you can see the negative cognitive developments of students worsening with every single year. The education system is at least 30 years behind. You must feel bad for teachers in towns nowadays, many of the students are lost causes and they couldnt care less about their situation. Who knows what'll become of them.

I was addicted to the internet for years on end, I think what the guy doesnt mention is that the internet provides instant gratification with little to no actual benefit at all (it rewires your brain to shy away from effort), not to mention there are very rarely any hardships or challenges, content and videogames only become easier and easier to the point that you barely have to rack your brain at all anymore and just vegetate on autopilot while staring at screens for hours on end.
I remember telling myself I rather watch videos and streams instead of reading a book is because books just arent really my thing anymore but the truth is that screentime consumption is simply far easier, there is no effort involved in scrolling through social media and the gain is instant gratification from all the pointless things you see. Internet addiction will lead people away from paths they wouldve otherwise chosen and it encourages you to let go off real social interaction because it takes time and effort while watching a podcast will give you a shadowy type feeling of being part of a group without having to leave your comfort zone which in turn will lead to ever increasint social anxiety and shying away from responsibility.

grow new neurons??? huh

Very interesting, think being able to focus deeply on something is the most important skillset someone can have.

Description of video is entirely wrong lol

What skills would we lose if all hard drives do is store data of skills we already had in the past?

I think this is wrong. The internet makes me too focused.

Anyone watching this in 2022?

I honestly don't know what to do anymore about my internet use i just feel awful 😞

what's his skincare routine

Unfortunately this is becoming even more true with time even if compulsory information seeking disorder is an extreme form of internet addiction. I hope that people in the future will more often know that internet addiction is an addiction on a similar level as casino addiction and with that, will be more able to cope with it ☹️

Thanks for this. I feel good about meditating a lot the last 8 years now.

this was the Longest 5 minutes of my life, I have no idea why my chinese class made me watch this

I was born in the wrong era this internet shit distracting

People's attention-span has gotten a lot worse since the time that this video has been uploaded.

this guy is a prophet

It's like a drug..You get an endorphin rush from having the ability to look up anything you want to see instantly..well for me anyway lol

Is this how you forget something you have already learned

Today, I had a conversation about new technology in schools with a guy, they seem to be using computers and tablets instead of books. I can't agree with that, even if I am deeply addicted to the internet and technology, I know it hurts the mind... The society, the media, parents, educators, psychologist openly support technology... I don't know I'm confused... how they can support this if it harm us? I don't understand it. and I can't get my head around it. In my personal perspective, we are all addicted to technology and we can't see it, so it comes the denial. They seem to be talking about artificial intelligent that will kill us in the future and almost no one is talking about the fact it is harming all our society right now.