The Real Bandwidth Crisis: How Modern Life Is Breaking the Human Mind

We must begin to treat attention as a finite resource—to protect our minds as we do our bodies.
The Real Bandwidth Crisis: How Modern Life Is Breaking the Human Mind
A photo of a child using an Apple iPhone smartphone on Aug. 21, 2014. Peter Byrne/PA
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Every year, we marvel at how much faster, smarter, and more connected our world has become. We’ve normalized the pace of a machine—always on, always responsive, always consuming. But reflecting in the glow of our screens is a human biological system that hasn’t really changed in thousands of years.

Kay Rubacek
Kay Rubacek
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Kay Rubacek is an award-winning educator, filmmaker, author, and mother. Detained in a Chinese prison in 2001 for her human-rights advocacy, she has since dedicated her work to exposing the systems and ideologies that diminish human life and human sovereignty. She has been a contributor to The Epoch Times since 2010.