The world is increasingly a place that is both unfamiliar and unfriendly to our brains. Global networks, complex digital systems, massive volumes of data, digital speeds, automated decision-making and persistent communications have all emerged this century and they are challenging the quality of our human experience. Already nearing our mind's limits to absorb change, we must quickly find ways to adapt.
The relatively slow speed of our physical and mental evolution over thousands of years seems to have been left behind in an instant by the unimaginable speed of digital evolution. How are today's humans to adapt in only a lifetime?
It appears likely that our brains will increasingly be fed on digital stimuli. It doesn't take a futurist to look around and see that we are all being irresistibly drawn deeper into the digital world. The results being our future will increasingly involve our brains, and those of our children and grandchildren, being formed, influenced and sustained on digital stimuli. Is this stimuli good for us? Will it make us healthier and happier?
