14/03/2025
source: OECDA PISA via Financial Times, 'Have humans passed peak brain power?' 2025-03-14
"Research finds that active, intentional use of digital technologies is often benign or even beneficial. Whereas the behaviours that have taken off in recent years have been shown to affect everything from our ability to process verbal information, to attention, working memory and self-regulation.
The good news is that underlying human intellectual capacity is surely undimmed. But outcomes are a function of both potential and ex*****on. For too many of us the digital environment is hampering the latter."
https://www.ft.com/content/a8016c64-63b7-458b-a371-e0e1c54a13fc