Brain implants and smart glasses could replace smartphones for social media access, creating unprecedented distraction risks. The speaker warns that seamless neural interfaces will make attention management critical for protecting cognitive health as these technologies spread.
Do you have any thoughts on the future of the relationship between social media and the brain or cognitive health?
I can't help but think that in the long term, phones are going away. You go into a public area, let's say you're in line at Disney, you're waiting for a ride, everyone's just standing there, right? You look around, everybody got their neck craned, they're looking down at their phone. Not everybody, but truly probably 50 to 75% of people. I think that will probably change. I think we'll end up more with like eyeglasses or things like that. Maybe, hopefully not, I don't want this, but like brain implants where you can swipe on social media and stuff. I think that Things are going to change and those attention-grabbing sources like social media are gonna become more and more accessible where, you know, you could be driving your car and you have your Instagram feed on the left side of your screen and you're swiping videos while you're driving and stuff like that. I don't really want things to go this way, but I think that we're just going to be increasingly kind of pummeled by distractors, things that can just slurp up our attention away from the real world. And, you know, I think we need to be very cautious and deliberate about the way we spend that attention.
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