Opinion
Opinion

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 40,000 years.
Kay Rubacek
Kay Rubacek
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Kay Rubacek is an award-winning filmmaker, author, speaker, and former host of NTD's “Life & Times.” After being detained in a Chinese prison for advocating for human rights, she has dedicated her work to facing communist and socialist regimes in their modern, global forms. She has also contributed to The Epoch Times since 2010.