1950s Week in an Hour?! - Dr. Dave Rabin

Name: 1950s Week in an Hour?! - Dr. Dave Rabin
Uploaded: 2024-07-19T12:15:02+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this segment, Dr. Dave Rabin highlights the modern problem of information overstimulation caused by smartphones. He notes that in the first hour after…

19 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, Dr. Dave Rabin highlights the modern problem of information overstimulation caused by smartphones. He notes that in the first hour after waking, people now consume as much information as a typical person did over an entire week in the 1950s. He explains that because humans are fundamentally sensory organisms, this constant flood of data supersaturates our senses, prompting the body to initiate a stress response even if the individual is unaware of it. The talk underscores the physiological impact of habitual morning smartphone use and frames it as a significant health concern.

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And just to give everybody an idea of how significant the overstimulation problem is, in the first hour, because of smartphones, in the first hour of being awake, people are consuming as much information as they were consuming in a week in the 1950s. Wow. So, just think about that in the context of human beings being— we are sensory organs. Our entire bodies are sensory organs. They're all built around taking in information to the environment. And we are supersaturating ourselves. If you have a smartphone and you're looking at it in the morning, we are supersaturating ourselves with information, so much information that our bodies are kicking off the day in a stress response, even if we don't realize it.